Favorite quotes

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

— Albert Einstein

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

— Marcus Aurelius

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

— Abraham Lincoln

"Focusing is about saying no."

— Steve Jobs

"When the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him."

— Napoleon

"Don't fear moving slowly. Fear standing still."

— Chinese Proverb

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

— Epictetus

"Tell me to what you pay attention, and I will tell you who you are."

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

"When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills."

— Chinese Proverb

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

— Ernest Hemingway

"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

— Bruce Lee

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming."

— Donald Knuth

"However little television you watch, watch less."

— David McCullough

"To improve is to change. To be perfect is to have changed often."

— Winston Churchill

"I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time."

— Charlie Munger

"Simple, correct, fast. In that order."

— Drew DeVault

"Ask for feedback on your attempts, not advice on your ideas."

— Anonymous

"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails."

— John Maxwell

"Feedback beats planning. No grand plans, follow the gradient of user value."

— John Carmack

"Space I can recover. Time, never."

— Napoleon

"There's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product."

— Steve Jobs

"A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both."

— François Auguste de Chateaubriand