#on

I'm a very boring person. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#i #person #very

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#effectively #great #his #how #idiosyncrasies

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#paper #sheet #starts #visionary #world

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#catch #certain #close #cut #down

I never wore full-on eyeliner in high school, but I wanted to. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#high #high school #i #never #school

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#average #before #choosing #committee #crap

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too. ↗

— David Storey

#confidence #done #little #little thing #thing

I’d accepted my judgment without question. Agreed to live a mortal life. I didn’t know my memories would come with me; didn’t know I’d relive them every day. Death would have been more merciful. ↗

— Christine Fonseca

#romance #tragedy #ya #death

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. ↗

— Joseph Story

#because #betray #citizens #councils #created

A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained. ↗

— Joseph Story

#best #fidelity #first #good #good government