#ck

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. ↗

— Plutarch

#courage #cowardice #excess #halfway #lack

Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#bill #bill gates #computing #direction #gates

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#american history #barack #barack obama #greatest #history

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#action figure #argument #batman #figure #give

I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law and Order,' the Benjamin Bratt/Jerry Orbach era. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#attacks #bear #benjamin #comedy #episodes

I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#big hair #black #called #color #cost

I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?' ↗

— Amy Poehler

#any #back #been #comedians #comedy

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#block #cigarette #computer #did #down

Hypotheses are what we lack the least. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#lack #least

If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#calculus #deep #different #different parts #existing