Quotes I Like

The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.

- Naval Ravikant

I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds.

I do not make any of my own clothing.

I speak a language I did not invent or refine.

I did not discover the mathematics I use.

I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate.

I am moved by music I did not create myself.

When I needed medical attention, I was helpless to help myself survive.

I did not invent the transistor, the microprocessor, object oriented programming, or most of the technology I work with.

I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being.

- Steve Jobs

Successful people create companies. More successful people create countries. The most successful people create religions.

- Unknown

There are naïve questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.

- Carl Sagan

Looking back, my last decade was like a neural network. Some parts were linear. Some were nonlinear. I never seemed to get enough data, and always got stuck in local minima. There was a lot of learning. I can't explain how any of it worked, but the results came out alright.

— Chip Huyen