Eine wilde Sammlung von Zitaten, die mich berührt haben.
Der Konservatismus besteht aus genau einer Prämisse: Es muss Innen-Gruppen geben, die das Gesetz schützt, aber nicht verpflichtet, und Außen-Gruppen, die das Gesetz verpflichtet, aber nicht schützt. — Wilhoits Gesetz (nach Frank Wilhoit)
Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. — Susanna Kaysen "Girl, Interrupted"
“Now” is often the wrong time to say what just popped into your head. It’s better to let it filter it through the sieve of time. What’s left is the part worth saying. — 37signals
Fetishize brevity… … even when you have space. — Eddie Shleyner
This raises a question: do we actually want to build robots that feel alive? Or is there a threshold, somewhere past expressiveness, where the system becomes too agentic, too unpredictable to stay … — Le Cauchois, Matthieu B.
Veränderungen dauern oft länger, als man denkt, und dann gehen sie schneller, als man gedacht hätte." — Frei nach Rüdiger Dornbusch
All models are wrong. Some are useful. — George Box
We want our self-driving car to be inhumanly focused on the road, not obsessing over an argument it had with the garage. — Kevin Kelly
Um einmal erfolgreich zu sein, konzentriere dich auf das Ergebnis; um dauerhaft erfolgreich zu sein, konzentriere dich auf den Prozess, der zum Ergebnis führt. — Kevin Kelly
Auf lange Sicht entscheiden Optimisten über die Zukunft. Um optimistisch zu sein, musst du nicht die vielen Probleme ignorieren, die wir verursachen, sondern dir einfach vor Augen führen, wie sehr … — Unbekannt
Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points. — Kevin Kelly
Whenever you have a choice between being right or being kind be kind. No exceptions. Don’t confuse kindness with weakness. — Kevin Kelly
Zuerst kauf dir die absolut günstigsten Werkzeuge, die du finden kannst. Die, die du oft benutzt, rüste qualitativ auf. Wenn du ein Werkzeug für einen Job nutzt, kauf dir das beste, das du dir … — Unbekannt
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: hobbies aren’t luxury. They’re survival. They’re how we regulate. How we remember who we are outside of a job title or a company name. People who regularly … — Ashley Willis
Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had … — Jim Butcher, Storm Front - A Harry Dresden Novel
I suddenly felt, for the very first time in my life, utterly, entirely alone. That something was gone that would never return, that a little hole had been hollowed out inside of me that wasn’t ever … — Jim Butcher, Storm Front - A Harry Dresden Novel
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the … — Theodore Roosevelt
If the problem can be solved, why worry? And if the problem can’t be solved, then worrying will do you no good. — Shantideva
Our world is long on noise and short on meaningful connections and positive leadership. — Seth Godin
Do what you love is for amateurs. Love what you do is the mantra for professionals. — Seth Godin
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. — John Tukey
When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in. — Paul Graham
Schon das Hinzufügen eines einzigen zusätzlichen Projekts führt zu einem Verlust von 20% der Zeit. Bei drei Projekten geht bereits fast die Hälfte der Zeit durch Task-Switching verloren. — Gerald Weinberg
The second we stop trying to get better is the moment we start getting gradually worst. — Ryan Holiday (paraphrasing Marcus Aurelius)
Also bringt er Menschen zum lachen und wirft dann bittere Pillen in offene Münder. — Bayerischer Rundfunk "Claus von Wagner: Wer braucht heute noch die Kunst der Übertreibung?"
Do not think you can be brave with your life and your work and never disappoint anyone. It doesn’t work that way — Brené Brown
Limit your time, format, word count, and audience. Restrict yourself! Restrict yourself, lest fear paralyzes you. Restrict yourself, lest freedom enslaves you. — Eddie Shleyner
decided to carpe the hell out of that diem — Craig Alanson
The future isn’t a place we are going to go, it’s a place we get to create. — Nancy Duarte