Gordon Livingston

"The 3 components of happiness are:
something to do
someone to love
and something to look forward to"

"When all is said and done, more is said than done"

"The problems of the elderly are frequently serious but seldom interesting"

"Is is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place"

Bill Gates

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”

Millôr Fernandes

"Anatomia é uma coisa que os homens também têm, mas que, nas mulheres, fica muito melhor."

"A verdadeira amizade é aquela que nos permite falar, ao amigo, de todos os seus defeitos e de todas as nossas qualidades"

"Como são admiráveis as pessoas que nós não conhecemos bem"

"Não devemos resistir às tentações: elas podem não voltar."

"O cara só é sinceramente ateu quando está muito bem de saúde."

"Jamais diga uma mentira que não possa provar."

"Quando todo mundo quer saber é porque ninguém tem nada com isso."

"Com muita sabedoria, estudando muito, pensando muito, procurando compreender tudo e todos, um homem consegue, depois de mais ou menos quarenta anos de vida, aprender a ficar calado"

"Os nossos amigos poderão não saber muitas coisas, mas sabem sempre o que fariam no nosso lugar."

"Há duas coisas que ninguém perdoa: nossas vitórias e nossos fracassos."

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"you can only convince people who think they can benefit from being convinced"

"finer men tolerate others' small inconsistencies though not the large ones; the weak tolerate others' large inconsistencies though not small ones"

"some books cannot be summarized (real literature, poetry), some can be compressed to about ten pages, the majority to zero pages"

"what we call «business books» is an eliminative category invented by bookstores for writings that have no depth, no style, no empirical rigor, and no linguistic sophistication"

"you don't become completely free by just avoiding to be a slave, you also need to avoid being a master"

"you never win an argument until they attack your person"

"academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but not exactly the same thing"

"losing all your fortune is much less painful than losing only half of it"

"you know you have influence when people start noticing your absence more than the presence of others"

"For company, you often prefer those who find you interesting over those you find interesting"

"a verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence"

"they agree that chess training only improves chess skills, but disagree that classroom training only improves classroom skills"

"If powerful assholes don’t find you “arrogant”, it means you are doing something wrong."

Most mistakes get worse when you try to correct them.

People don’t like it when you ask them for help; they also feel left out when you
don’t ask them for help.

It is a very powerful manipulation to let others win the small battles.

If you get easily bored, it means that your BS detector is functioning properly; if
you forget (some) things, it means that your mind knows how to filter; and if you feel sadness, it
means that you are human.

The ultimate freedom lies in not having to explain why you did something.

Never hire an A student unless it is to take exams.
 

All rumors about a public figure are to be deemed untrue until he threatens to sue.

When people say, “I am investing for the long term,” it means they are losing
money.