Puntori Quotes & Sayings

These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers. — Noam Chomsky

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth. — Freeman Dyson

I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and not proactive. And when you try to be proactive, they accuse you of being capricious and arbitrary. So I don't wanna be a manager ... — Larry Wall

O thoughtful waste of my days! What an artist I have destroyed! — Paul Valery

The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them out; bad seemed to lead to good, and good motives led to bad. The paradox is that evil comes from man's urge to heroic victory over evil. — Ernest Becker

The mind cannot long play the heart's role. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are. — Lisa Gansky

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Are you overdone yet? — Charlotte Henley Babb

Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not? — Jiddu Krishnamurti