"If you always win, then you're probably doing something wrong."
-- Scott Aaronson
"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
-- Marcus Aurelius
"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."
-- Francis Bacon
"Life is a long lesson in humility."
-- James M. Barrie
"To live in the past is to die in the present."
-- Bill Belichick
"Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful."
-- George Box
"The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible."
-- Ray Bradbury
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving."
-- Dale Carnegie
"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what is required."
-- Winston Churchill
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
-- Winston Churchill
"By lifting the weakest, poorest among us, we lift the rest of us as well."
-- Bill Clinton
"Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that."
-- Bill Clinton
"We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
-- Richard Dawkins
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
-- Walt Disney
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
-- Albert Einstein
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
-- Albert Einstein
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
-- Albert Einstein
"Every man I meet is in some way my superior. In that I learn of him."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?"
-- Richard Feynman
"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"To whom much has been given, much is expected."
-- Bill Gates
"You only get one life. Why not do something huge?"
-- Paul Graham, Some Heroes
"I think the way to 'solve' the problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you. Work on an ambitious project you really enjoy, and sail as close to the wind as you can, and you'll leave the right things undone."
-- Paul Graham, Good and Bad Procrastination
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
-- Robert J. Hanlon
"A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."
-- G. H. Hardy
"In basketball as in life -- true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way."
-- Phil Jackson
"Sometimes, beauty is in the attempt."
-- Lavina Jadhwani
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."
-- Steve Jobs
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves."
-- Carl Jung
"Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it."
-- Ray Kurzweil
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."
-- H. L. Mencken
"You can't control the cards you're dealt, just how you play the hand."
-- Randy Pausch
"Science advances funeral by funeral."
-- Max Planck
"To err is human; to forgive is divine."
-- Alexander Pope
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default."
-- J. K. Rowling, Harvard 2008 Commencement Address
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
-- Bertrand Russell
"If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art."
-- Bill Russell
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
-- Carl Sagan
"Nothing happens unless first a dream."
-- Carl Sandburg
"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."
-- Tom Stoppard
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
-- Dr. Seuss
"Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
-- William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night"
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"It's wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope."
-- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
"Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."
-- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
-- Mark Twain
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."
-- Mark Twain
"Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better."
-- John Updike
"You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, and I guarantee you'll win no matter the outcome."
-- Robin Williams, "Patch Adams"
"Never mistake activity for achievement."
-- John Wooden
"The important graphs are the ones where some things are not connected to some other things. When the unenlightened ones try to be profound, they draw endless verbal comparisons between this topic, and that topic, which is like this, which is like that; until their graph is fully connected and also totally useless."
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky
"That which can be destroyed by the truth should be. That which the truth nourishes should thrive."
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky
"Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come."
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky
"To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty."
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky
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