“If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking. […] Everyone thinks they think. If you don’t write down your thoughts, you are fooling yourself.” — Leslie Lamport
“Writing is Nature’s way of showing you how sloppy your thinking is.” — Dick Guindon
“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.” — John von Neumann
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects” — Lazarus Long via Robert Heinlein
“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.” — Albert Einstein
“Finding the truth is difficult, and the road to it is rough.” — Ibn al-Haytham
“Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.” — John Tukey
“The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” — Gary Shilling
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” — Epictetus