Quotes October 16, 2023

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
Charlie Munger
 
 
 
 
“Oh it’s very simple. My secret had been I know what to ignore.”
Nobel Prize Winner Francis Crick on the secret to winning.
 
 
 
 
“The best new ideas always have unanticipated benefits. So it’s stupid to require people who want to do new things to enumerate the benefits beforehand. The best you can do is choose smart people and then trust their intuitions about what’s worth exploring.”
Paul Graham on new ideas
 
 
 
 
“I re-invented electric cars and am sending people to mars…did you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?”
The start of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk
 
 
 
 
“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.”
Philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
 
 
 
 
I feel like fairness is what it’s all about — and consideration.
Danny DeVito,
actor, director, producer
 
 
 
 
Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion.
Mindy Kaling – Actress-Screenwriter
 
 
 
 
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”
May Sarton
 
 
 
 
‘But what is grief, if not love persevering?”
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