Category Archives: Quote of the Day

When Thoughts Think Themselves

Posted on December 13, 2017 by dpouliot

In the Sam Harris Podcast Is Buddhism True? A Conversation with Robert Wright, Robert Wright noted “thoughts think themselves”. It’s a great conversation and I can’t pretend I can explain it better than he did, but here is my takeaway:

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Our Greatest Failing

Posted on May 17, 2015 by dpouliot

Alan Lightman begins his article, “Nothing but the Truth; Science’s and Greatest Weakness Is Also Its Greatest Strength”  (Popular Science, May 2015) with an anecdote about Richard Feynman. “40 years ago, the legendary physicist Richard Feynman gave the commencement address at … Continue reading →

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On Saying No to the Adventures Life Presents You

Posted on November 5, 2014 by dpouliot

Joseph Campbell on refusing the call that life presents you (a.k.a saying ‘no’ to life, emphasis mine): “When this refusal of the call happens, there is a kind of drying up, a sense of life lost. Everything you knows that … Continue reading →

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When you see a good move…

Posted on November 2, 2014 by dpouliot

“When you see a good move, look for a better one.” —Emanual Lasker This chess strategy is also good advice in so many other areas: programming, business strategy, relationships, politics, and on and on.

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Resistance to New Ideas

Posted on December 24, 2013 by dpouliot

“The resistance to any new idea is proportional to the square of its importance.” —Bertrand Russell

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Our Doubts are Traitors

Posted on November 2, 2013 by dpouliot

“Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.” —William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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The Job of Clever People

Posted on September 10, 2013 by dpouliot

“The job of clever people is to ask difficult questions. The job of very clever people is to ask deceptively simple ones.” —The Economist1 Citations The Economist, September 7, 2013, The man who showed why firms exist [↩]

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Edison on Programming Your Sleep

Posted on August 21, 2013 by dpouliot

Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious. —Thomas Edison

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Convictions cause convicts.

Posted on June 19, 2013 by dpouliot

“‘Convictions cause convicts.’ Whatever you believe imprisons you.” —Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger

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Einstein on Thinking

Posted on May 23, 2013 by dpouliot

“The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the level of thinking we were at when we created them.”

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