"In general, my advice is to seek out people and new ideas when you travel."

-- Arthur Frommer

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“Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have some sort of complaint that you were far happier not knowing about.”
“Only Bayern Munich really have some sort of a guarantee to win if they only catch a good day. All the others need really good days to win. I like that.”
“One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow”
“Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. The world doesnâ€™t need any more gray. On the other hand, we canâ€™t get enough color. Mediocrity is nobodyâ€™s goal and perfection shouldnâ€™t be either. Weâ€™ll never be perfect. But remember these three Pâ€™s: Passion + Persistence = Possibility.”
“We call it keeping up with the Joneses. They buy a boat and we buy a bigger one. They get a new TV and we get a big screen. They start a business and we start planning our articles of incorporation and the first stock release. And while we're so busy keeping up, we ignore our soul, the inner voice, that's telling us that it really wants to teach children to read. While it helps to identify with each other, we're not the same. So why compare ourselves on the basis of material things? Are you walking a path with heart in your own life, regardless of what others have?”
“If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought: if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate... and marvels will be performed.”
“Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.”
“Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm certainly introverted.”

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