Browse Quotes

618 quotes in the collection

• To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.

  Stephen Hawking

• Thousands of people don’t like what I do. Fortunately, millions do.

  James Patterson

• Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

  André Gid

• Scarcity is the one thing you can never have enough of.

  Marc Randolph

• Scarcity is the one thing you can never have enough of.

  Marc Randolph

• Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

  André Gid

• The most selfish act of all is kindness, because its payback is so much greater than the investment.

  Tom Peters

• The illiterate of the 21st century will be those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

  Alvin Toffler

• There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.

  Octavia Butler

• Life, then, springs from disorder as a means of efficiently routing environmental energy, explaining its resilience: life goes with the flow where technology seeks to stem the tide. Thus, the natural thrives where the artificial is eroded—a…

  Jochen Szangolies

• When people act together they can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could even hope to bring about.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

• A brain designed for a village shouldn’t be exposed to a planet.

  Alberto Romero

• Reading a book is harder than scrolling. Raising a child is harder than traveling. Sex is harder than porn. Talking in person is harder than messaging. Writing is harder than prompting. Eating well is harder than eating badly. Moving is harder…

  Alberto Romero

• Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted.

  John Lennon

• The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

  William Blake

• Even if they had all the other good things, still no one would want to live without friends.

  Aristotle

• When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, they are almost certainly right. When they state that something is impossible, they are very probably wrong. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is…

  Arthur C. Clark

• Quitting on time will usually feel like quitting too early.

  Annie Duke

• Just because you heard about a new idea this last year or two doesn’t mean that people haven’t been working on that very same idea for decades. So temper your expectations that it must be about to transform the world. Ideas that transform the…

  Rodney Brooks

• Myself, I am fearful, anxious about you, lest the woodmen should come, forest hewing, to dig your roots and pollute your seed so that an apple might never grow on you again.

  Myrddin