I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau
Be guided by beauty. It can be the way a company runs, or the way an experiment comes out, or the way a theorem comes out, but there's a sense of beauty when something is working well, almost an aesthetic to it.
Jim Simons
Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble.
Sir Frederick Henry Royce
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand
Perfection is attained not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to remove.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Make mistakes of ambition, not mistakes of sloth.
Machiavelli
Let's assume we know nothing, which is a reasonable approximation.
David Kazhdan
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Mark Twain
The difference between being successful is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, person and others but rather, a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
It's not that I'm smart. It's that I just stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Frank Herbert
A man is not rich who cannot raise an army at his own expense.
Plutarch
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
John von Neumann
That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.
P. C. Hodgell
When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.
Isaac Asimov
Never let your schooling get in the way of your education.
Mark Twain
The map is not the territory.
Alfred Korzybski
Something burned inside me. I wanted to be different; I was determined to be unique. I was driven to think big and to dream big. Everyone else thought that I was crazy.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The power of the unaided mind is highly overrated… The real powers come from devising external aids that enhance cognitive abilities.
Donald Norman
I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That's their mistake, not my failing.
Richard Feynman
Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician. The devil says: I will give you this powerful machine, it will answer any question you like. All you need to do is give me your soul: give up geometry and you will have this marvelous machine.
Sir Michael Atiyah
The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think.
Marc Andreessen
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus
Everything can be taken from man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Albert Einstein
Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.
Stefan Banach
Learn as if you will live forever; live as if you will die tomorrow.
Unknown
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon
Live like no one will so you can live like no one can.
Dave Ramsey
The introduction of the digit 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps...
Grothendieck
The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy cause.
Helen Keller
The key to modern life is to be, in a word, unborable.
David Foster Wallace
A traveller who refuses to pass over a bridge until he personally tests the soundness of every part of it is not likely to go far; something must be risked, even in mathematics.
Horace Lamb
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
How you do anything is how you do everything.
Ryan Holiday
October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
Mark Twain
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
Mortimer Adler
The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments.
Salvador Dali
You want to be rich and anonymous, not poor and famous.
Naval Ravikant
Preach often, when necessary use words.
St Francis of Assisi
The way you get ahead in the world, you get close to those that are the head of things.
Lyndon Johnson
The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.
Paul Tudor Jones
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize
Voltaire
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
André Weil
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
You become the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
Jim Rohn
Your soul is sunken in that cowardice that bears down many men, turning their course and resolution by imagined perils.
Dante Alighieri
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Chinese Proverb
The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.
Kurt Vonnegut
In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at night, under the full moon, they dream, they float among the stars and wonder at the miracle of the heavens. They are inspired. Without dreams there is no art, no mathematics, no life.
Michael Atiyah
It's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower.
Paul Graham
I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.
Seneca
Treat your men as you would your own beloved son and they will follow you into the deepest valley.
Sun Tzu
Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter.
Marcus Aurelius
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future is here, it's just unevenly distributed.
William Gibson
The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
Kurt Vonnegut
If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow—you are not understanding yourself.
Bruce Lee
Freedom of speech isn't something somebody else gives you. That's something you give to yourself.
Kurt Vonnegut
The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.
Hans Christian Andersen
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
If I had my time again, knowing what I know today, I would dedicate myself to making just enough to live comfortably as quickly as I could by the time I was 35. I would then cash out and retire to write poetry and plant trees.
Felix Dennis
I love to do research, I want to do research, I have to do research, and I hate to sit down and begin to do research—I always try to put it off just as long as I can. ... Isn't there something I can (must?) do first? Shouldn't I sharpen my pencils, perhaps? In fact I never use pencils, but pencil sharpening has / become the code phrase for anything that helps to postpone the pain of concentrated creative attention. It stands for reference searching in the library, systematizing old notes, or even preparing tomorrow's class lecture, with the excuse that once those things are out of the way I'll really be able to concentrate without interruption.
Paul Halmos
When fishermen cannot go to sea, they repair nets.
Nabil Sabio Azadi
Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group… then to hell with them.
Charlie Munger
Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
There are no gains without pains.
Benjamin Franklin
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep, while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and keep.
Benjamin Franklin
A salary is the drug they give you to forget your dreams
Kevin O'Leary
Think of the life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what's left as a bonus and live it according to Nature. Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting?
Marcus Aurelius
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.
Bertrand Russell
Don't allow everyone who crosses your path to change your direction.
Unknown
Anyone can attain my level, if he is as diligent as I have been for my entire life.
J.S. Bach
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Isaac Newton
How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?
Epictetus
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
Marcus Aurelius
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Bruce Lee
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore
André Gide
No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
Marcus Aurelius
Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist.
Tony Stark
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.
Seneca
It is not titles that make men illustrious, but men who make titles illustrious.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Don't seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will—then your life will flow well.
Epictetus
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people
Eleanor Roosevelt
To become a philosopher king, first become a king, then become a philosopher.
Epictetus
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.
Viktor Frankl
That without a recognition of logical fictions, without a comparison of reality with the purely IMAGINED world of the absolute and immutable, without a constant counterfeiting of the world by means of numbers, man could not live.
Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil)
Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state; servants of fame; and servants of business. So as they have no freedom; neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty: or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.
Francis Bacon
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius
For the sake of mental stability and even physiological health, the unconscious and the conscious must be integrally connected and thus move on parallel lines. If they are split apart or "dissociated," psychological disturbance follows.
Unknown
We have two classes of forecasters: Those who don't know — and those who don't know they don't know.
John Kenneth Galbraith
A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come.
Nikola Tesla
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
Seneca
I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.
John Adams
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
Bruce Lee
A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of the toil and sacrifice and high courage... for us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
Theodore Roosevelt
Curb your desire—don't set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need.
Epictetus
These individuals have riches just as we say that we "have a fever" when really the fever has us.
Seneca
The mind can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
John Milton
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. When the process is interrupted by adversity at a critical age, as in the case of Charles II, the subject becomes sane and never completely recovers his kingliness.
Bernard Shaw
If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, 'He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would have not mentioned these alone.'
Epictetus
Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.
Viktor E. Frankl
And down under all those piles of stuff, the secret was written: We build our computers the way we build our cities -- over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.
Ellen Ullman
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living.
Henri Poincaré
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.
Michel Montaigne
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Bernard Shaw
The mother of invention is necessity.
William Horman
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact that it endeavors to establish.... it is nothing strange ... that men should lie in all ages.
David Hume
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
When somebody congratulates Amazon on a good quarter, I say thank you. But what I'm thinking to myself is— those quarterly results were actually pretty much fully baked about 3 years ago. Today I'm working on a quarter that is going to happen in 2020. Not next quarter. Next quarter for all practical purposes is done already and it has probably been done for a couple of years.
Jeff Bezos
The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own…
Epictetus
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Winston Churchill
No Citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
Socrates
Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Activity is the only road to knowledge.
Bernard Shaw
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
Rahm Emanuel
The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.
Amos Tversky
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln
See them clamber, these nimble apes! They clamber over one another, and thus scuffle into the mud and the abyss.
Nietzsche
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Bertrand de Jouvenel
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Machiavelli
Fate leads the willing and drags the unwilling.
Seneca
The reader lives faster than life, the writer lives slower.
James Richardson
You were not created for a life of idleness. You cannot eat from sunrise to sunset or drink or play or make love. Work is not your enemy but your friend. If all manners of labor were forbidden to thee you would fall to your knees and beg an early death.
Og Mandino
Only individuals have a sense of responsibility
Friedrich Nietzsche
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there's something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
Albert Camus
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Things do not happen - they are brought about by careful planning, diligence, application and direction.
George Mecherle
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man has to live and sleep with his business if he wants to make a go of it. You have to take it home with you at night, so you can lie there in the darkness and figure out what you can do to improve it. In fact, you have to become sort of a 'nut' about it, so that you become so enthused that you will bore your friends talking about it. You have to be a one-man crusade.
George Mecherle
Whatever you are, be a great one.
Abraham Lincoln