Favourite quotes

Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. (The Bible)

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (The Bible)

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. (The Buddha)

Now, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought "This contemplative is our teacher." When you know for yourselves that "These qualities are skilful; these qualities are blameless; these qualities are praised by the wise; these qualities, when adopted and carried out, lead to welfare and to happiness"- then you should enter and remain in them. (The Buddha)

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth. (Albert Einstein)

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. (Galileo Galilei)

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. (Mahatma Gandhi)

Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other opinions drown you own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. (Steve Jobs)

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. (Steve Jobs)

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and may be that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets. (Steve Jobs)

Mop-ping-up operations are what engage most scientists through their careers. They constitute what I am here calling normal science. Closely examined, whether historically or in the contemporary laboratory, that enterprise seems an attempt to force nature into the preformed and relatively inflexible box that the paradigm supplies. No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box are often not seen at all. Nor do scientists normally aim to invent new theories, and they are often intolerant of those invented by others. Instead, normal-scientific research is directed to the articulation of those phenomena and theories that the paradigm already supplies. (Thomas S. Kuhn)