Quotes

When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. So, create.
– Why the Lucky Stiff

Because when you really know who you are and what you like about yourself, changing for other people isn't such a big deal.
– Abed, Community

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
– Albert Einstein

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.
– General George Patton

If you want to be happy, be.
– Leo Tolstoy

Change breaks the brittle.
– Jan Houtema

Science gathers knowledge faster than the society gathers wisdom.
– Isaac Asimov

Diligence is the mother of good luck.
– W Stepney

Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on.
– Fred Jung (Ray Liotta, Blow(2001))

Hardest prisons to breakout are the ones without locks.
– Abed, Community

The unexamined life is not worth living
– Socrates

Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate.
— Ethan Zuckerman, MIT Professor