Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

Sun Tzu

People get paid the big bucks because they handle uncertainty well and bring vague, ill-defined problems to a good resolution.

"I'm pretty good with React" doesn't quite cut it.

Mike Julian

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut

People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A text without a context is pretext for a prooftext.

Anon.

Replace pure by applied mathematics, logic by computer programming, architecture by engineering, history by sociology. The result will be a new generation of well-informed philistines, whose charmlessness will undo every advantage which their learning might otherwise have conferred.

Roger Scruton

Brexit is a national tragedy built on a chimera. The UK is about to discover that it has traded the real power to shape its destiny for an illusion drenched in nostalgia.

Philip Stephens, The Financial Times

True innovation emerges from chaos. In that space, there's only one way to progress, and that is to create. Makers move forward, analysts get left behind.

Philosophie

Programmers know the benefits of everything and the tradeoffs of nothing. Architects need to understand both.

Rich Hickey

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which have happened.

Mark Twain

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Arnold Glasow

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Life is an amazing journey to nowhere.

Jessica Wildfire

The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.

Otto von Bismarck

"But a number of Republican lawmakers and Fox News personalities are lobbying the president to reopen the economy as quickly as possible." (NYT)

News Personalities is surely an Oxymoron and a clear indication that a nation has capitulated its critical thinking skills to the Telly

"Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict ones prejudgment simply need not be believed- in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous."

"Beyonce has mastered this celebrity age as creator of worlds, sayer of nothing"

Joel Golby, the Guardian

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Great minds discuss ideas; mediocre minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Premium mediocre minds discuss bitcoin

Venkatesh Rao

A stupid person in Cipollas sense is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

A zealot is one who redoubles their effort after they've forgotten their aim.

Andy Hunt (agile manifesto)

There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Max Planck

An old joke about a horse-trainer serving a mad Russian tsar.

One day the tsar insists that the trainer must make his favourite horse talk within the year or face execution. The trainer instantly agrees to make the horse talk. When his friends warn him that he has taken on an impossible task, he replies: A lot can happen in a year the tsar might die, I might die, the horse might die. Or the horse might talk.