04.01.07
6:09 am - Jason G. - Quotes, Technology
An entertaining quote from Mao Xian:
I should have taken the money spent on business school and leased a Bloomberg terminal and explored it for fourteen months instead. With the savings, I could have gone to night school at DeVry in New Brunswick and learned how to program instead. In other words, I could have done something useful and productive, instead of getting a stupid MBA. Live and learn.
…the MBA is just a union card, it’ll open doors in the corporate world, especially if you went to a Top 20 school, but who wants to be a suit?
03.29.07
8:45 am - Jason G. - Quotes
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
-George Jean Nathan
03.22.07
6:27 am - Jason G. - Quotes
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
-Calvin Coolidge
03.12.07
8:14 am - Jason G. - Quotes
We all know the saying “if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing it right.” Here comes a logical consequence…
“Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.”
-Elias Schwartz
01.16.07
7:03 am - Jason G. - Quotes
“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”
– David Brin
A friend recently gave me a little poster that says, “Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Bit it rocks absolutely too.” I couldn’t agree more, but I don’t think I’ve come close to absolute power yet…
01.15.07
7:09 am - Jason G. - Quotes
“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.”
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
11.16.06
8:19 pm - Jason G. - Quotes
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
-Elbert Hubbard
11.14.06
1:10 pm - Jason G. - Quotes
“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
10.07.06
7:32 am - Jason G. - Quotes
There’s an interesting question about where this phrase comes from:
May you live in interesting times.
– Ancient Chinese Curse (or Old Scottish Curse)
See what Wikipedia has to say on the topic…
09.26.06
6:59 am - Jason G. - Quotes
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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