Kris Yotam

The bearing of a child takes 9 months, no matter how many women are assigned.

Fred Brooks

Stupidity is always a capital crime.

Larry Niven

Behind a remarkable scholar one often finds a mediocre man, and behind a mediocre artist, often, a remarkable man.

Friedrich NietzscheBeyond Good & Evil

Hardly any man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Realists don't fear the results of their study.

Fyodor DostoevskyA Writer's Diary

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Friedrich NietzscheTwilight of the Idols

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

War is the father of all & king of all, & some he shows as gods, others as humans; some he makes slaves, others free.

Heraclitus

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what’s right.

Isaac Asimov

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.

François de La Rochefoucauld#327

Without leaps of imagination, you lose the excitement of possibility.

Gloria SteinemOutrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them...

Cormac McCarthyOn the Plains

The desire to appear clever often prevents one from being so.

François de La Rochefoucauld#199

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

Daniel HandlerHorseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

The ultimate result of shielding men from the results of folly is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert SpencerState Tampering with Money and Banks

The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.

Brian Herbert

No matter how gifted you are... You, alone, cannot change the world.

L LawlietDeath Note

War makes thieves, and peace hangs them.

George HerbertJacula Prudentum

If you keep my secret, this strawberry is yours.

L LawlietDeath Note

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Bertrand RussellFree Thought and Official Propaganda

The people who are most confident AI can replace writers are the ones who think writing is typing.

Andrew Tihttps://twitter.com/andrewti/status/1804591245161119901

With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum.

Kareem Abdul-JabbarTED 2007

No one is free when others are oppressed.

Angela Davis

To talk about oneself a great deal can be a means of concealing oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mathematics is the most powerful tool that humanity has ever developed to understand the universe.

Carl Sagan

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

Christopher Hitchens

The well-rope has been Captured by morning-glories— I'll borrow water.

Kaga no Chiyojo

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

François de La Rochefoucauld#19

What fresh hell is this?

Dorothy Parker

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.

Daniel HandlerHorseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

Manual inspection of data has probably the highest value-to-prestige ratio of any activity in machine learning.

Greg Brockmanhttps://twitter.com/gdb/status/1622683988736479232

The bells are very loud today.

L LawlietDeath Note

Così l'anima nostra, incontanente che nel nuovo e mai non fatto cammino di questa vita entra.

Dante AlighieriConvivio IV, xii, 14–18 (c. 1304–1307)

This isn't divine judgment. It's the work of some childish killer who's playing at divine retribution. That's all.

L LawlietDeath Note

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Joseph Conrad

Hmmm... Yes, it would be dark!

L LawlietDeath Note

It is also possible that a knob of coal placed upon the fire will not burn.

David Humeon his deathbed, of going to Heaven

If you use your head, you won't get fat even if you eat sweets.

L LawlietDeath Note

I don’t even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead.

CypherThe Matrix

Q: "How long do you want your messages to remain secure?" A: "For as long as the hearts of men are capable of evil."

Cryptonomiconparaphrased

... if you're in an email conversation with one other person and you're both using Gmail, don't bother quoting at all.

Charles Millerhttp://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2007/07/12/posting_top_like_dont_still_i

The reader lives faster than life, the writer lives slower.

James Richardson

We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code.

David D. ClarkIETF 1992

Consequentialism: The belief that doing the right thing makes the world a better place.

DanielLC

The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.

Charlie Munger

In all the heavens and the earth, I Alone am the Honored One.

Gege AkutamiJujutsu Kaisen

Don’t answer the foolish arguments of fools, or you will become as foolish as they are.

Book of Proverbs26:4

What You Are Inside Only Matters Because of What It Makes You Do

David Wong\&6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person

I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

CalvinCalvin & Hobbes