Welcome! Here you’ll find inspiring quotes to motivate and guide you. Browse by topics like writing, success, and more to find some inspirational words for your day.
Tech for good
- The ultimate goal should be to improve the quality of human life through digital innovation. - Pony Ma Huateng
Life
If you want something in your life that you’ve never had, you will have to do something, you’ve never done. - JD Houston
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – Malala Yousafzai
Don’t judge the future of a person based on his present conditions because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond. – Chanakya
You don’t know your own limits, until you test them. 1
The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit. — Morgan Freeman
AI
- It now only costs about a hundred thousand dollars to design a pathogen like COVID, and so a cult with a million dollars could design ten of them and release them all at once. – Dr. Geoffrey Hinton
- I think what’s going to happen is we’re going to get these big models generating their own data in the same way that AlphaZero does, and that’s going to overcome the data bottleneck, and then scaling will take us as far as we want to go. – Dr. Geoffrey Hinton
- It is necessary to consider carefully the ability of the computing mechanism to take our intention correctly. And the person controlling the machine must foresee where it can go astray, and prescribe in advance for all contingencies. — John von Neumann
Quantum
- The quantum world: A place where there is no penalty for interference. – Raymond Laflamme, IQC
Learning
- In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn. – Phil Collins
Happiness
By Vivekananda:
- As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.
- Happiness and misery are the obverse and reverse of the same coin; he who takes happiness, must take misery also. We all have this foolish idea that we can have happiness without misery, and it has taken such possession of us that we have no control over the senses.
- Real happiness is not in the senses but above the senses; and it is in every man.
Work
- It almost doesn’t matter what you know. It’s what you can do with whatever you know or can acquire and actually accomplish that tends to be valued. - Andrew Grove (3rd CEO of Intel Corporation)
- The best practitioners understand not just how to accomplish a task but also why. - Sari Greene
Writing
An essential aspect of getting your work done is allowing yourself to write a really shitty first draft. That way you can have a better second draft and a third draft & so on & so forth. - Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird
Very few writers really know what they’re doing until they’ve done it.
Success
- One of the most important key to success is having the discipline to do what you know you should do, even when you don’t feel like doing it.
- The greatest weren’t lucky. They sacrifised.
Overthinking
- The cure to overthinking is action. Start small. Break you goals it into managable steps. 2
Choices
- We all make choices, but in the end, our choices make us. - Ken Levine
Authenticity
- Authenticity is about showing up, not about being universally approved
Showing up
- Half the battle is won just by showing up.
Finance
- You shouldn’t invest in anything you don’t understand. - Rich Kinder
Miscellaneous
- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
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