A single snowflake can bend the leaf of the bamboo
A single snowflake can bend the leaf of the bamboo
-- Chinese proverb
Serendipity
Serendipity means a "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise"; specifically, the accident of finding something good or useful without looking for it.
Can be described as : to look for a needle in a haystack and get out of it with the farmer's daughter.
-- Wikipedia
The more we attempt to know ourselves, the less we actually understand.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/frontal-cortex/2012/06/daniel-kahneman-bias-studies.html
If you don't know, please ask. If you don't agree, argue. If you don't like it, please say it. But don't sit there quite and judge me.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/116180064933757180493/posts/GUD62LuDmb9
Power is nothing without control
Power is nothing without control is the well known slogan of Pirelli Tyre Company, and is featured in numerous television and print advertisements.
-- Wikipedia
Sturgeon's Law
Nothing is always absolutely so
Sturgeon's law , is an adage commonly cited as "ninety percent of everything is crud" or "ninety percent of everything is crap" .
-- Wikipedia
when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.
when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.
Rus:
Когда ты ничего не создаёшь, тебя определяют твои вкусы, а не твои способности. Твои вкусы лишь сужают круг общения и отталкивают людей. Так что создавай.
http://www.joeydevilla.com/2008/08/08/why-the-lucky-stiff-on-why-you-should-create/
Turing tarpit
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
—Alan Perlis, Epigrams on Programming -- Wikipedia
The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent
- Fundamentals of Chess 1885
The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look
- Julius Caesar 75 BC
Edelstein's Advice
Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.
Barber's Rule
Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
Helga's Rule
Say no, then negotiate.
Sid's Law
You can't win them all if you don't win the first one.
Professor Block's Motto
Forgive and remember.
Anderson't Axiom
You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.
Doane's First Law of Procrastination
The more proficient one is at procrastination, the less proficient one need to be at all else.
Six degrees of separation
Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person on Earth, so that a chain of, " a friend of a friend" statements can be made, on average, to connect any two people in six steps or fewer. It was originally set out by Frigyes Karinthy and popularized by a play written by John Guare.
-- Wikipedia
Rune's Rule
If you don't care where you are, you ain't lost.
The Butterfly Effect
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state. The effect derives its name from the theoretical example of a hurricane's formation being contingent on whether or not a distant butterfly had flapped its wings several weeks before.
-- Wikipedia
Campbell's Maxim
Hell is the place where everything tests perfectly and nothing works.
A Sound of Thunder
“A Sound of Thunder” is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, first published in _ Collier’s_ magazine in 1952. As of 1984 it was the most re-published science fiction story up to the present time.[1] It is based on the concept of the butterfly effect, as well as, perhaps, the snowball effect.
-- Wikipedia
Grossman's Lemma
Any task worth doing was worth doing yesterday.
Primary Rule of History
History doesn't repeat itself - historians merely repeat each other.
Predictably Irrational
_ Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions _ is a 2008 book by Dan Ariely, in which he challenges readers' assumptions about making decisions based on rational thought. Ariely explains, "My goal, by the end of this book, is to help you fundamentally rethink what makes you and the people around you tick. I hope to lead you there by presenting a wide range of scientific experiments, findings, and anecdotes that are in many cases quite amusing. Once you see how systematic certain mistakes are--how we repeat them again and again--I think you will begin to learn how to avoid some of them"
-- Wikipedia
Dan Ariely
http://danariely.com
Beware conflicts of interest
Are we in control of our own decisions?