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Quotes
A selection of quotes that inspired me
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."
- Jurrasic Park
"The unobservables create noise, not signal."
-Mullainathan
"The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Treating different things the same way may generate as much inequality as treating the same things in different ways."
-Kimberle Crenshaw
"When you are drunk, your understanding of your true self changes"
-Malcolm Gladwell
"The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion "
-Albert Einstien
"“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.'
Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.”"
- Kurt Vonnegut
"The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept"
- Thucydides
"The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools"
- Thucydides
"Those who mind don't matter, those who matter don't mind" - Dr. Suess
"Black mother's tears keep graveyard's grass green"
- Kale Nelson
"The names keep changing, but the skin color doesn't"
- Kevin Hart
"Populists are better at campaigning than governing "
- Michael Lind
"There's an old saying in emergency managment--disaster is the wrong time to exchange business cards "
- Tim Manning
"'Did we go 'back to normal' after 9/11? No. We created a whole new normal'"
- Laurie Garrett (NYT Article)
"'Manuscripts don't burn'"
- Mikhail Bulgakov
"Nothing that is vast enters into the life of mortals without a curse"
- Sophocles (HBIT)
"'One must imagine Sisyphus happy'"
- Albert Camus
"With a new medium, it starts with euphoria and then goes to hysteria and then hopefully you get some kind of balance"
- Adam Mosseri (NYT)
"'He will wake up and smell the coffee'"
- Speaking about Recyip Erdogan
"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day"
- E.B White
"If the herders are many, the sheep will get lost"
- Yemeni Proverb
"When Alexander was told there was an infinity of worlds, he wept, for he had yet to become the lord of even one."
- West World via Plutarch
"Data that is loved tends to survive"
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