Latest Quotes

“I’ve never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn’t matter. Life is to be lived.”

— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.”

— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“No job is beneath you. You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail. If you can't (or won't) sort mail, where is the proof that you can do anything?”

— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward.”

— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.”

— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”

— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“You can always change you plan, but only if you have one.”

— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“People are more important than things.”

— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won't have to chase your dreams, they will come to you.”

— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“If you took one tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.”

— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If I got three more words, I'd add, all the time.”

— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.”

— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”

— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”

— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“When designing spatially, it helps to imagine an interface as a physical model, which can be manipulated, and travelled through. Rather than placing detached comps next to each other one-dimensionally, try thinking upper-dimensionally.”

— Pasquale D’Silva, Spatial Interfaces — Elepath Exports

“Imagine how different the world would be if from the rooftops of our very own apartments, if from the crowd filled city streets, we yelled our love for one another rather than our hate. Always remember that human heart is approximately the size of two hands clasped together. There is no coincidence…”

— Bianca Sparacino, Imagine

“[Digital] objects constrained using sensible, physical rules, help establish a clear model.”

— Pasquale D’Silva, Spatial Interfaces — Elepath Exports

“The open web is free—free like language is free, like consciousness is free. Freedom not so much as a right, but as a technical and inalienable fact.”

— Robinson Meyer, The Forrest Gump of the Internet

“If toxic masculinity was just about men posturing around each other in a comical fashion, that would be one thing, but this persistent pressure to constantly be proving manhood and warding off anything considered feminine or emasculating is the main reason why we have so many damn shootings in the U…”

— Amanda Marcotte transcribed by James Hamblin, The Under-Discussed Role of Toxic Masculinity

“This is where the argument risks losing traction, in that it has made men across the Internet defensive. ‘Not all men’ has been a boorish rejoinder to critiques of masculinity, but an informative one. No one wants to be implicated in this violence— not all gun owners, not all bipolar patients, not a…”

— James Hamblin, The Under-Discussed Role of Toxic Masculinity