Quotes

Some words that inspire and help me.

Decide before the race the conditions that will cause you to stop and drop out. You don’t want to be out there saying, “Well gee, my leg hurts, I’m a little dehydrated, I’m sleepy, I’m tired, and it’s cold and windy.” And talk yourself into quitting. If you are making a decision based on how you feel at the moment, you will probably make the wrong decision. - Ultramarathoner Dick Collins.

By: Seth Godin

Source: The Dip

Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google, told me, “We knew that Google was going to get better every single day as we worked on it, and we knew that sooner or later, everyone was going to try it. So our feeling was that the later you tried it, the better it was for us because we’d make a better impression with better technology. So we were never in a big hurry to get you to use it today. Tomorrow would be better.”

By: Seth Godin

Source: The Dip

The next time you catch yourself being average when you feel like quitting, realize that you have only two good choices: Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.

By: Seth Godin

Source: The Dip

“If you can do, or dream you can, begin it now, for boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” - Goethe

By: Robert Swan

Source: Let’s save the last pristine continent

“I am a spark of the infinite. How can I have fear?”

By: Pravrajika Divyanandaprana

Source: Miracle of Positive Thinking

“Thought can create a heaven out of hell and can create a hell out of heaven also. It all depends on how you handle your thought process”

By: Pravrajika Divyanandaprana

Source: Miracle of Positive Thinking

“Every great change starts like falling dominoes” - BJ Thornton

By: Gary W. Keller and Jay Papasan

Source: The one thing

“Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing until you get there” - Josh Billings

By: Gary W. Keller and Jay Papasan

Source: The one thing

“If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one” - Russian proverb

By: Gary W. Keller and Jay Papasan

Source: The one thing

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” - Stephen Covey

By: Uri Levine

Source: Fall In Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

Transparency, perhaps more than anything else, creates disruption.

By: Uri Levine

Source: Fall In Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

No one can compete against good enough and free.

By: Uri Levine

Source: Fall In Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

There are right decisions and there are NO decisions. This is because when you make a decision and choose a path, no one knows what it would be like if you had chosen a different path.

By: Uri Levine

Source: Fall In Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

Failure is an event, not a person. That’s the only way for an organization to embrace failure and encourage fast recovery toward the next experiment.

By: Uri Levine

Source: Fall In Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

Remember that if you are afraid to fail, then in reality you already failed…

By: Uri Levine

Source: Fall In Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

If you tell yourself, “Next time, I will do it differently,” then make “next time” now. It doesn’t matter if this is about your relationships, the way you raise your kids, your job, your studies, or a hobby. If you know something needs to be changed, make that change today. We cannot change the past but we can make changes today that will impact our future.

Teaching tolerance for failure is important not only in the start-up world. If you have children, encourage them to try different things. That will help them develop self-confidence. Fail and recover - this is one of the most important lessons to incorporate in your parenthood.

By: Uri Levine

Source: Fall In Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

One of the best ways to get to that point is actually to start with something that’s not good enough and then iterate repeatedly until it is good enough.

By: Uri Levine

Source: Fall In Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

It was as Michael Jordan once said, “I’ve never lost a game. I just ran out of time.”

By: Uri Levine

Source: Fall In Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

Your passion for making a change must be greater than your fear of failure and the alternative cost.

By: Uri Levine

Source: Fall In Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

When I was young, my dad once told me that if you don’t know how much you’re paying, you are paying too much.

By: Uri Levine

Source: Fall In Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

In my opinion, there are only right decisions or NO decisions.

By: Uri Levine

Source: Fall In Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

Engineering requires not just the ability to use mathematics, but the ability to understand what, if anything, the mathematics tells us about an actual system.

By: Leslie Lamport

Source: Specifying Systems

If you do it right, one disruption will fuel the next. One revolution will domino into another. People will laugh at you and tell you it’s ludicrous, but that just means they’re starting to pay attention. You’ve found something worth doing. Keep doing it.

By: Tony Fadell

Source: Build

… a lot of people will see a successful company and not just Docker or something anything in the world and they would say I thought of that years ago and it’s like your idea is somewhat valueless like it’s worth zero, exactly zero because an idea that isn’t executed is zero value …

By: Mitchell Hashimoto

Source: alphalist podcast

Most people only have a few significant alternate life paths so close to them. But you, here, you’re capable of anything, because you’re so bad at everything.

By: Waymond

Source: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Every rejection, every disappointment has led you to this moment. Don’t let anything distract you from it.

By: Alpha Waymond

Source: Everything Everywhere All At Once

You think because l’m kind that it means I’m naive, and maybe I am. It’s strategic and necessary. This is how I fight.

By: Waymond

Source: Everything Everywhere All At Once

The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind. Especially when we don’t know what’s going on.

By: Waymond

Source: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Ideas are very important. I think that bringing ideas into the world is one of the most important things that people do and I think that great ideas in the form of great art, stories, inventions, scientific theories - these things take on lives of their own which give meaning to our lives as people.

By: Bret Victor

Source: Inventing On Principle

If “you” try to get involved in the “how” of things, you will just interfere, because you’re a bottleneck on how much “yourself” can do!

By: PJ

Source: The Multiple Self

In the same way, most of us don’t really know how to use our own brains in a systematic way. We give them commands like we were a cat walking across a keyboard: every now and then we end up with something syntactically valid, but semantically… questionable.

By: PJ

Source: The Multiple Self

Don’t be afraid of complexity. I think too many engineers look at stereotypically complex projects such as programming languages, browsers, databases, etc. as magic or as destined for higher-beings. I like to remember that all projects were started by other humans. If they could do it, I can do it too. And so can you.

By: Mitchell Hashimoto

Source: Contributing to Complex Projects

“The magic bullet is mathematics”

By: Leslie Lamport

Source: How to think clearly as a programmer with mathematics and TLA+ - Leslie Lamport @ HLF 2019

“Try to be happy because in this world, everything is temporary. You know. So you should be happy. You know. That’s the way my grandmother taught me. Nothing is permanent, so you should be with what you got.”

By: Thiru Kumar, AKA the Dosa Man

Source: The Legendary Dosa Man of NYC | Street Food Icons

“Especially cooking food, my grandmother told me here to put lot of love into it. If you don’t love what you do, it’s very hard to come up in the business.”

By: Thiru Kumar, AKA the Dosa Man

Source: The Legendary Dosa Man of NYC | Street Food Icons

“The advice that I would give people is that you know a lot less than you think and that’s okay. It’s actually probably really good thing but to make up for that you really have to surround yourself with people who are good at what they do and interested in helping you learn….. Don’t chase names, don’t chase fame - none of that stuff. Success will come if you just focus on sort of building the fundamentals.”

By: Mitchell Hashimoto

Source: Code Story - S4 Bonus: Mitchell Hashimoto, HashiCorp (Replay)

“Negotiation is the heart of collaboration. It is what makes conflict potentially meaningful and productive for all parties. It can change your life, as it has changed mine.”

By: Chris Voss

Source: Never split the difference

If you are desperate, it’s a great asset. If you have too many choices in life, it clouds your thinking. When you have one way to go and that’s forward, it’s very easy.

By: Doug Leone

Source: Sequoia Capital’s Doug Leone on Luck & Taking Risks

Let me tell you what we think about children. They’re hardwired for struggle when they get here. And when you hold those perfect little babies in your hand, our job is not to say, “Look at her, she’s perfect. My job is just to keep her perfect – make sure she makes the tennis team by fifth grade and Yale by seventh.” That’s not our job. Our job is to look and say, “You know what? You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.” That’s our job. Show me a generation of kids raised like that, and we’ll end the problems, I think, that we see today.

By: Brené Brown

Source: The power of vulnerability

Every minute spent doing something other than what you love most today is a minute you’ll regret when you’re 80.

By: Julian Shapiro

Source: What to work on

If you’re not moving forward, you’re moving backward.