Marc Estrin famous quotes

Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.
-- Marc Estrin

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One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.

Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.

To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.

The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).

I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for

The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.

I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?

If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or my stupidity, I'm not sure which.

I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.