January 2009
8 posts
“no matter how brilliant you and your coworkers are, there are always going to be smarter people outside of your company.”
—Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code
“If we do not have in ourselves the Buddha mind, then where are we to seek Buddha?”
—Basic ideas of Yogacara Buddhism
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
—Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein”
—Is anyone else here worried that they’ve spent so long looking briefly at everything, that they’ve still good at absolutely nothing?
