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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d6959f9 | When shown his office, he was asked what equipment he might need. "A desk or table, a chair, paper and pencils," he replied. "Oh yes, and a large wastebasket, so I can throw away all my mistakes." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1585715 | While gambling at checkers with some shipmates, he formulated an "infallible rule," which was that "if two persons equal in judgment play for a considerable sum, he that loves money most shall lose; his anxiety for the success of the game confounds him." The rule, he decided, applied to other battles; a person who is too fearful will end up performing defensively and thus fail to seize offensive advantages." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 94173c7 | elected directly by the people based on proportional representation. The House would select members of an upper chamber, the president, and the judiciary. Franklin had long favored a legislature with only one directly elected house, seeing little reason to place checks on the democratic will of | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7e28e65 | In doing so, he learned one of his pragmatic lessons about jealousy and modesty: he found that people were reluctant to support a "proposer of any useful project that might be supposed to raise one's reputation." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7e2601c | Temperance: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. Order: Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. Frugality: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; (i.e., waste nothing). Industry: Lose no time; be alway.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| efc3ff1 | The new Pennsylvania Fireplaces, as he called them, were initially somewhat popular, at PS5 apiece, and papers around the colonies were filled with testimonials. "They ought to be called, both in justice and gratitude, Mr. Franklin's stoves," declared one letter writer in the Boston Evening Post. "I believe all who have experienced the comfort and benefit of them will join with me that the author of this happy invention merits a statue." Th.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5c2e3cf | Everyone must, from time to time, make a sacrifice on the altar of stupidity, to please the deity and mankind. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e5ace45 | In it he argued that unrestrained capitalism produced great disparities of wealth, cycles of boom and depression, and festering levels of unemployment. The system encouraged selfishness instead of cooperation, and acquiring wealth rather than serving others. People were educated for careers rather than for a love of work and creativity. And political parties became corrupted by political contributions from owners of great capital. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2554495 | Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| fa14c90 | Jobs and his team went to a Xerox dealer to look at the Star as soon as it was released. But he deemed it so worthless that he told his colleagues they couldn't spend the money to buy one. "We were very relieved," he recalled. "We knew they hadn't done it right, and that we could--at a fraction of the price." A few weeks later he called Bob Belleville, one of the hardware designers on the Xerox Star team. "Everything you've ever done in you.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 47dbbce | Should we be unable to find a way to honest cooperation and honest pacts with the Arabs," he wrote Weizmann in 1929, "then we have learned absolutely nothing during our 2,000 years of suffering." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1b72ba7 | The two great Semitic peoples," he said, "have a great common future." If the Jews did not assure that both sides lived in harmony, he warned friends in the Zionist movement, the struggle would haunt them in decades to come.78 Once again, he was labeled naive." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7661c1c | We thus arrive at the important result: Events that are simultaneous with reference to the embankment are not simultaneous with respect to the train," said Einstein. The principle of relativity says that there is no way to decree that the embankment is "at rest" and the train "in motion." We can say only that they are in motion relative to each other. So there is no "real" or "right" answer. There is no way to say that any two events are "a.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e51684e | Wozniak could make one of the computers he had been sketching on | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3140193 | If there is no love, what then?"2" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1ba6124 | I hate it when people call themselves "entrepreneurs" when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on. They're unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e8c7c10 | It was a perfect school for Einstein. The teaching was based on the philosophy of a Swiss educational reformer of the early nineteenth century, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, who believed in encouraging students to visualize images. He also thought it important to nurture the "inner dignity" and individuality of each child. Students should be allowed to reach their own conclusions, Pestalozzi preached, by using a series of steps that began wit.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2570423 | Visual understanding is the essential and only true means of teaching how to judge things correctly," Pestalozzi wrote, and "the learning of numbers and language must be definitely subordinated." 58" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4ac5e31 | Somehow, though, they managed to ignore the fact that being the dominant species on Earth meant that absolutely nothing about their position was inevitable or beyond their control. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 3ab282a | The universe had something to do with it, didn't it?" "Sure, but you were the originator of this." | Jeff Brown | ||
| b5c7c24 | The more open something is, the more difficulty it has with society. | Jeff Brown | ||
| eae0174 | To Each Their Path | Jeff Brown | ||
| cd7cd79 | Every relationship was a world unto itself. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 367e016 | However love arrives at your door, it is always a brave path. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 8556d9d | wish I could say that it all seemed fantastical. But it wasn't like that at all. I had just entered an unmistakably deepened reality, one where the terms of engagement are beyond the grasp of the rational mind--one where the soul's journey is paramount, where essence isn't a concept but a felt experience. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 0a1480b | Relationship is always a spiritual practice, even when we imagine it otherwise. | Jeff Brown | ||
| b980730 | Every path is a journey to God. We just have to remember to open our heart again and again... | Jeff Brown | ||
| 668836b | It's hard to send someone to their death," she said, answering his silent question. His expression was hidden behind the visor of his helmet. She didn't need to call on any of her abilities as a Jedi to know what he was thinking: one day she would do the same to men like him. The realization caught her unawares. "You'll get used to it," he said. She doubted it." | Karen Traviss | ||
| 259ab45 | Why doesn't the fact that I'm human matter to human beings | Karen Traviss | ||
| f00c78e | When wars end, all the shit comes tumbling out. People talk, point fingers at each other, reveal things they've kept quiet for years. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 751e1aa | Let's revise the old adage for our times. All that it requires for evil to succeed is that enough lazy, stupid bastards believe everything they're told. | Karen Traviss | ||
| a92d760 | If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 6f50a9a | I shouldn't have to do the foot-soldier work, Tahiri. Be my eyes and ears. I'd hate to have to use ch'hala trees. You're smarter than a tree--aren't you? --Darth Caedus to Tahiri Veila | humor jacen-solo star-wars tahiri-veila | Karen Traviss | |
| 7e27fa0 | A military life attracts young people for many reasons--duty, comradeship, purpose, the opportunity to test life to the limits, to learn a trade, escape from home, adventure--even patriotism. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 14362fb | Life was a trade-off between loneliness and inevitable peaks of joy or agony. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 3d5ec6a | I know genes are a big deal, son, but they're not the be-all and end-all." Rob slowed to a halt at the lights, wishing the dickhead behind would back off. "If they were, you'd be in a seafood salad and I'd be in prison." | genetics identity self-belief | Karen Traviss | |
| 12455ac | It's entirely possible that the Jedi's increasingly clouded vision was the result of their own moral degeneration. They'd let so many of their principles slip that the reason they couldn't see the dark side was so close to them was the lack of sharp contrast with themselves, like trying to see a gray nerf in fog. They turned off the light themselves. --Bardan Jusik, former Jedi Knight Kyrimorut, | Karen Traviss | ||
| d83afb3 | Hope was evil. It seduced you, then it dropped you on your ass so hard and so fast that you were worse off than when you started. | jacinto-s-remnant karen-traviss | Karen Traviss | |
| 0b63e05 | anything that was aware of its actions was capable of making choices about them. | Karen Traviss | ||
| eea9472 | I don't mind being shot at. It's having a government that lies to me that I hate. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 3fe860a | It was as if the small differences mattered more than the really big ones--like you had to recognize something before you could hate it properly. No | Karen Traviss | ||
| 0473e3e | Dom decided that when life returned to normal--even after fourteen years, he had to think that it could--he'd follow Cole's example and treat money as easy come, easy go. People were what mattered. You couldn't replace them, and they didn't earn interest. They just slipped away a day at a time, and you had to make the most of every precious moment. When | Karen Traviss | ||
| 488f037 | Gra'tua cuun hett su dralshy'a. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 5dcff1f | I've never met a soldier who knew he was a hero. It's not false modesty. They simply decide to do something that they know they must do, usually for there comrades, because if they don't, those people will suffer in some way. For them, that compulsion is far stronger than any fear. The fact we find it exceptional is a sad indictment of the human race. I'd like to live in a world of heroes. If we did, there would be no wars. | humility modesty | Karen Traviss |