satiety

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

"Your twenties are always an apprenticeship, but you don't always know what for."

"Your twenties are always an apprenticeship, but you don't always know what for."

"The best way to do something 'lean' is to gather a tight group of people, give them very little money, and very little time."

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field."

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct."

! "Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

"Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

"Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

"Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

"Good ideology. Wrong species."

"I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one."

– Bill Gates

"I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one."

– Bill Gates

! ! "I have never seen ordinary effort lead to extraordinary results."

brittle

"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

"Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all."

Frankly

omnipotent

greengrocers

acquaintance

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

liberation

heretics

ridicule

reincarnated

"We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making."

battalions

"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

disastrous

unpalatable

"Your twenties are always an apprenticeship, but you don't always know what for."

incensed

rashness

obscure

reifying

unwarranted

sought

seldom

superfluous

anointed

"The best way to do something 'lean' is to gather a tight group of people, give them very little money, and very little time."

repugnant

inherently

discere

irresistibly

"He begins working calculus problems in his head as soon as he awakens. He did calculus while driving in his car, while sitting in the living room, and while lying in bed at night."

– divorce complaint of Richard Feynman's second wife

indistinguishable

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field."

egregious

perversity

ruinous

iniquitous

pestilences

lavish

dissipation

embittered

"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct."

"Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money."

imitate

pernicious

"Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

prejudices

aversion

Good ideology. Wrong species."

"I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one."

– Bill Gates

! !

Avoid metaphors, which can introduce unneeded baggage

parvenu

If you start a war, you don’t get to choose how it ends.

inclined to agree

bigoted

I have never seen ordinary effort lead to extraordinary results."