Cygnus’s most recent Quotables

Good judgement comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgement. If things are going well that means you are learning a lot and things will go a lot better next time.

"We cannot become who we need to be by remaining who we are."

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”

— Blaise Pascal, French philosopher, Pensees (1623-1662)

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.

"Sort of" is such a harmless thing to say. "Sort of." It's just a filler. "Sort of"—it doesn't really mean anything. But after certain things, "sort of" means everything. Like after, "I love you." Or, "You're going to live." Or, "It's a boy!"

Success comes through rapidly fixing our mistakes rather than getting things right the first time.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Where there are humans, you’ll find flies, and Buddhas.

Keep your eyes open and your mouth shut.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Count your blessings – not your troubles.

There are two rules for success:

1. Never tell everything you know.

Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weights you down.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Give someone a program, and you'll frustrate them for a day. Teach someone to program, and you'll frustrate them for a lifetime.