If I were wrong, then one would have been enough.
Einstein, on being informed of the publication of "100 Authors Against Einstein"
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Bill Gates
It was only sometime between 1910 and 1912 that a random patient, with a random disease, consulting a doctor chosen at random, had, for the first time in the history of mankind, a better than 50-50 chance of profiting from the encounter.
L.J. Henderson
It doesn't get easier, you just go faster.
Greg LeMond
Mathematics must be written into the mind, not read into it. 'No head for mathematics' nearly always means 'Will not use a pencil.'
Arthur Latham Baker, Elements of Solid Geometry (1894), page ix
get a large typewriter;
and as the footsteps go up and down;
outside your window;
hit that thing;
hit it hard;
make it a heavyweight fight;
make it the bull when he first charges in;
and remember the old dogs;
who fought so well:
Hemingway, Celine, Dostoevsky, Hamsun;
if you think they didn't go crazy;
in tiny rooms;
just like you're doing now;
without women;
without food;
without hope;
then you're not ready.
drink more beer.
there's time.
and if there's not;
that's all right;
too.
Charles Bukowski
You'll never make the grade unless you are decisive: even a timely wrong decision is better than no decision. The final thing you'll need to know is: don't half heartedly wound problems - kill them dead. That's all there is to it.
Kelly Johnson
Thiel and Levchin also wanted workaholics who were not MBAs, consultants, frat boys, or, God forbid, jocks. "This guy came in, and I asked what he liked to do for fun," Levchin recalls. "He said, 'I really enjoy playing hoops.' I said, 'We can't hire the guy. Everyone I knew in college who liked to play hoops was an idiot.'"
Success in life is proportional to how much you're willing to have awkward conversations.
Sandy Barak
Experience has proved that great as the love of truth may be among men, it can be made still greater by adventitious rewards.
William James, in The Ph.D. Octopus
I hated discussing ideas with investors, because then I became a Defender Of The Idea, and that influences your thought process.
Mike Burry
Shares are worth only the present value of their future cash flows, not the present value of their future earnings.
Jeff Bezos, in his April 2005 letter to Amazon shareholders