1/ The best quotes that I (re)discovered in 2017
2/ "There's no such thing as too much information just filter failure.”
3/ "we all are bundles of contradictions, and we manage to hang together by bringing out one side of ourselves at a given time." Douglas Hofstader
4/ "First will what is necessary. Then love what you will.” Irivin Yalom (Amor fati - "love of one's fate")
5/ "It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong."
6/ "Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted" - Howard Marks
7/ "All heuristics are regime dependent”
8/ "Almost all successful rewriting involves moving closer to just calling a spade a spade." Alain de Botton
9/ "To avoid that Failure of Nerve for which history exact so merciless a penalty - we must have the courage to follow all technical extrapolations to their logical conlusion." Arthur C. Clarke
10/ “We ought not to do to our future selves what it would be wrong to do to other people.” ― Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons
11/ “We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
12/ "if you have to worry about it you can't afford it." Warren Buffett
13/ "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought" - Matsuo Bashō
14/ "Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise." - Bertrand Russel
15/ "Geniuses have very limited toolsets — they have a hammer and their genius is in looking for nails.”
16/ "Things are never as good, or as bad, as they may at first seem" -- La Rochefoucauld
17/ "The trouble with our system of upbringing is that it teaches us what to think not how to think.” Krishnamurti
18/ “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” - Louis L’Amour
19/ "Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90%, in most cases, you’re probably being slow. Plus, either way, you need to be good at quickly recognizing and correcting bad decisions...
20/ If you’re good at course correcting, being wrong may be less costly than you think, whereas being slow is going to be expensive for sure.” - Jeff Bezos
21/ "You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in.” Robert Pirsig
22/ "Unexpected successes are the best guide to strategy.” - @Richard Koch8020
23/ “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being...
24/ And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
25/ "History is merely a list of surprises. ... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.” - Kurt Vonnegut
26/ "we are deterministic creatures living in a probabilistic universe" - Amos Tversky
27/ "The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours." -Amos Tversky
28/ "those who speculate that a full apprehension of man’s condition would drive him insane are right, quite literally right." Ernest Becker
29/ "To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” - Somerset Maugham
30/ "Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
