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We grew up isolated. The future is connected. We grew up unable to have substantial interactions with anyone except a small circle of family and co-workers. Now, we earn the right to interact with just about anyone.

I think this changes everything … if we let it.

— Brainwashed: seven ways to reinvent yourself

— Seth Godin

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2010.11.18 Thursday ACHK

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Firing the customers you can’t possibly please gives you the bandwidth and resources to coddle the ones that truly deserve your attention and repay you with referrals, applause and loyalty.

— Seth Godin

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2010.11.06 Saturday ACHK

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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

— Warren Buffett

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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

— Ralph W. Emerson on Art

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2010.11.03 Wednesday ACHK

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* Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

— George Bernard Shaw

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2010.10.31 Sunday ACHK

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* Just as the liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

— The Two Pioneers

— George Bernard Shaw

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2010.10.28 Thursday ACHK

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Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.

— Cyril Connolly

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2010.10.26 Tuesday ACHK

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Managers exist to get furniture out of the way so the real talent can do brilliant work.

— Joel on Software

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2010.10.25 Monday ACHK

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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

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2010.10.24 Sunday ACHK

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There are two ways to do work you love: (a) to make money, then work on what you love, or (b) to get a job where you get paid to work on stuff you love. In practice the first phases of both consist mostly of unedifying schleps, and in (b) the second phase is less secure.

— Paul Graham

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2010.10.22 Friday ACHK

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潛龍，勿用。《乾》

— 易經

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One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

— Blaise Pascal

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2010.09.30 Thursday ACHK

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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.

* Last words, as quoted in Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992) by James Gleick

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2010.09.27 Monday ACHK

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Your mind is like this water my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.

— Master Oogway

— Kung Fu Panda

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2010.09.25 Saturday ACHK

天才之道 4

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Mr. Ping: The secret ingredient is… nothing!

Po: Huh?

Mr. Ping: You heard me. Nothing! There is no secret ingredient.

Po: Wait, wait… it’s just plain old noodle soup? You don’t add some kind of special sauce or something?

Mr. Ping: Don’t have to. To make something special you just have to believe it’s special.

— Kung Fu Panda

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The biggest secret is that there is no secret.

— Me@2010.09.23

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2010.09.24 Friday ACHK

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If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you’ll never learn.

— Ray Bradbury

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2010.09.23 Thursday