Echeverr A B Quotes & Sayings

My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction. — Jack Dorsey

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it. — Wendell Berry

Whatever the one generation may learn from the other, that which is genuinely human no generation learns from the foregoing ... Thus no generation has learned from another to love, no generation begins at any other point than at the beginning, no generation has a shorter task assigned to it than had the previous generation. — Soren Kierkegaard

When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule chairs; in this manner they suffered death without resistance or supplication. Such conduct was in them applauded as noble and magnanimous; in the hapless Indians it was reviled as both obstinate and sullen. How truly are we the dupes of show and circumstances! How different is virtue, clothed in purple and enthroned in state, from virtue, naked and destitute, and perishing obscurely in a wilderness. — Washington Irving

Well, you remember what Iamblichos said about the way they built up the god-forms in their imagination so as to get the invisible powers to manifest through them? — Dion Fortune

From my background in travel at HotWire and Expedia, the metrics that TaskRabbit is seeing are more than double at what I saw at both those companies. — Leah Busque

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still. — Calvin Coolidge

The bodies we have are not made for extended use. We must cope with accumulated DNA damage, cell damage, muscle atrophy, bone loss, decreased muscle mass, and joints worn out from overuse during a lifetime of bipedal locomotion. It might have worked great for prehistoric humans, but it wreaks havoc on our knees and hips. — S. Jay Olshansky