An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.
— Themistocles
I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and inconsiderable city to glory and greatness.
— Themistocles
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
— Dr. Seuss
Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees.
— J. Willard Marriott
You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue you, for the law is too slow. I’ll ruin you.
— Cornelius Vanderbilt
Dunning–Kruger effect →
is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to appreciate their mistakes. The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their own abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority.
I don’t get upset over things I can’t control, because if I can’t control them there’s no use getting upset. And I don’t get upset over the things I can control, because if I can control them there’s no use in getting upset.
— Mickey Rivers
“One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn’t dream of a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope, and anarchy.”
– Apple exec Jean Louis Gassée on the naming of Apple
