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Mathematics is not a deductive science – that’s a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don’t just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

– Paul Halmos

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”

– Frank Herbert

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.

– Marshall McLuhan

Judicious use of a tool requires awareness of possible side effects and reactions. Otherwise, indiscriminate use may result in side effects and reactions outweighing the benefits…The cure is sometimes worse than the disease.

– V.F Ridgway

Confidence is not the same as a guarantee- and I would never propose that people trust themselves to have the answer or trust themselves to succeed… it’s simply that trusting yourself is better than not trusting yourself. Shipping your best version is better than not shipping it and deciding to get better at something is the only way to get better at it.

– Sethi Godin

The extent of someone’s courage or cowardice can not be measured in ordinary times. All is revealed when something happens.

– Ben Horowitz

Success traps can be harder to get out of, because at least with failure traps, there’s incentives to change things. With success traps, the incentives are to keep doing the same thing.

– Greg McKeown

If you want to be successful in business (in life, actually), you have to create more than you consume. Your goal should be to create value for everyone you interact with. Any business that doesn’t create value for those it touches, even if it appears successful on the surface, isn’t long for this world. It’s on the way out.

– Jeff Bezos

All the the returns come from being non-consensus and right – and every company has to shift from non-consensus to consensus to ultimately succeed.

– Delian Asparouhov