"When I first heard about Y Combinator, it was one of those ideas that just seemed forehead-slappingly obvious. Good ideas often do, in retrospect."

-- Mark Fletcher

#Ideas Quotes #Retrospect Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“In Africa, there is much confusion.... Before, there was no radio, or other forms of communication.... Now, in Africa ... the government talks, people talk, the police talk, the people don't know anymore. They aren't free.”
“Whatever you have is gonna die and you are gonna have to rebirth something new. You have to be willing to ride the waves.”
“I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.”
“To step into tomorrow's possibilities you must let go of yesterday's realities. Be careful of your choices between what was, is and will be. It is very hard to fully step into your destiny while you are still holding on to your history.”
“When you're tempted to be upset, ask yourself 'Is this worth giving up my joy?'”
“Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.”
“The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.”

Source : Stephen Greenblatt (2011). “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company
“Joy is the response of a lover receiving what he loves. This is the joy we feel when skiing powderâ€¦ This overflowing gratitude is what produces the absolutely stupid, silly grins that we always flash at one another at the bottom of a powder run. We all agree that we never see these grins anywhere else in life.”

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