My Favourite Quotes

Life

• It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. --- The Little Prince

  • 世無雙目破塵緣，獨有靈心看通天. --- 小王子

• The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. --- George Bernard Shaw

  • 最大的金科玉律就是: 根本没啥金科玉律

• If we judge people, we have no time to love them. --- Mother Teresa

• Value has a value only if its value is valued. --- Bryon Dysan (former CEO of Coca Cola)

• Life is like a computer game. Each time you advance a level, the challenge gets harder. When you finally reach the boss level, it will take you back to the beginner's, and things will become easy for you. --- Eugene Tse

• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.---Naguib Mahfouz

• The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made. --- Jean Gieraudoux

• Life is like a box of chocolate. You never know what you're going to get. --- Mother of Forrest Gump

• An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight...The truly wise person is color blind. --- Albert Schweitser

• There is no true hope without despair. --- Modified from "There is no true despair without hope." by Bane (Batman Trilogy)

• Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. --- John Charles Salak

• We do the best we could, let other people judge, and take whatever outcome lightly. --- Yue Lu Shu Yuan

  • • 是非審之於己，毁譽聽之於人，得失安之於數。--- 嶽麓書院經典對聯節錄

• 春有百花秋有月，夏有涼風冬有雪，若無閒事掛心頭，便是人間好時節。--- 無門慧開禪師

• 佛語：

  • • 世外人法無定法然後知非法法也，天下事了猶未了何妨以不了了之。

    • 見了就做做了便放下了了有何不了，彗生於覺覺生於自在生生還是無生。

    • 一切有為法，如夢幻泡影，如露亦如電，應作如是觀。---《金剛經》

Self-reflection

• • If things that are so highly appreciated by the management appear totally unreasonable to you, then you simply don't belong to this workplace.

Creativity

• And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.--- Steve Jobs

• Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. --- George Bernard Shaw

Science

• There is nothing more practical than a good theory. --- James C. Maxwell

• If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. --- Albert Einstein

• The art of asking the right questions is more important than the art of solving them. --- Georg Cantor

• The true worth of research is not decided by majority rule. --- Yoshisuke Ueda

• Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. --- Putts Law

• First, observe, and then make deductions. Eliminate the absolute impossibles. Then, whatever remains, however mad it looks, must be the truth. --- Sherlock Holmes

Teaching

• I couldn't explain it at freshman level. That means I don't really understand it. --- Richard Feynman

Leadership and Management

• Leadership is to do the right things, and management is to do things right.

• If you listen to the public and media to tell you what to do, you are not a leader. --- Lee Kwong Yiu