It’s best not to mess with karma. Why
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...
Instead, Franklin found a good and faithful helpmate who was frugal and practical and devoid of pretensions, traits that he later noted were far more valuable to a rising tradesman.
In return for speaking at the retreat, Jobs got Murdoch to hear him out on Fox News, which he believed was destructive, harmful to the nation, and a blot on Murdoch's reputation. You're blowing it wit...
In ancient Rome, when a victorious general paraded through the streets, legend has it that he was sometimes trailed by a servant whose job it was to repeat to him, Memento Mori: Remember you will die...
If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will,
I'd been very influenced by what I'd seen in Japan. Part of what I greatly admired there - and part of what we were lacking in our factory - was as sense of teamwork and discipline. If we didn't have...
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 w...
How did he get his ideas? I’m enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
He fell silent for a very long time. But on the other hand, perhaps it’s like an on-off switch, he said. Click! And you’re gone. Then he paused again and smiled slightly. Maybe that’s why I never like...
Hallicrafters,
Grace was a good man,
Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and the World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.
Franklin would find himself more attracted to people who were practical and reliable rather than dreamy and romantic.
Fortune proclaimed
Form follows emotion
Even when he was barely conscious, his strong personality came through. At one point the pulmonologist tried to put a mask over his face when he was sedated. Jobs ripped it off and mumbled that he hat...
Einstein had a similar conversation with his friend in Prague, Philipp Frank. A new fashion has arisen in physics, Einstein complained, which declares that certain things cannot be observed and theref...
Close to forty thousand Germans gathered in front of Berlin’s opera house on May 10, 1933, as a parade of swastika-wearing students and beer-hall thugs carrying torches tossed books into a huge bonfir...
Causality expresses the pattern which the mind imposes on a sequence of events in order to make their appearance comprehensible.