#ok

Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over the Antietam took place. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#bridge #called #defend #just #left

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#books #chloroform #mind

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they're proud of. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#facebook #motivates #people #proud #really

I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#amazing #around #built #countries #different

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke? ↗

— Gore Vidal

#culture #joke #like #other #produced

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#because #books #busyness #how #many

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#god #looks #me #really #then

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#called #could #courses #different #enter

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. ↗

— Chanakya

#blind person #books #mirror #person #stupid

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises. ↗

— Chanakya

#books #confined #his #knowledge #need