Adventure
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Creativity, New Ideas
别人无法教会你创造和创新：新的理念来自于个人经历以及你和周围环境的互动。
Innovation and Creativity can not be taught by other people, the new ideas are from personal experience and the interaction between you and the environment around you.
Focus
Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully - Samuel Johnson, September 19, 1777, p. 351, often misquoted as being hanged in the morning.
Future, Vision and Execution
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay.
Vision without execution is hallucination. -- Thomas Edison. (A post on LinkedIn by Bill Gross)
Knowledge - Power of knowledge
The more time and energy you spend acquiring pertinent knowledge, the more control you have over your life.
Life
I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it. I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation. - Saul Bellow, Professor at Boston University.
It contains the power to transform an ordinary life into one filled with Grace and Love and Dignity. - Eric Schmidt
Master
Follow the master, Walk with master, Talk to master, Become master. -- Eric Raymond
Methodology from Facebook
Code Wins Argument. -- Facebook
Move Fast and Break Things. -- Facebook
Done is Better than Perfect. -- Facebook
Stay Focus and Keep Shipping. -- Facebook
Mistake
The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned - Albert Einstein
Simple
Make things as simple as possible but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. -- Albert Einstein.
Simplicity
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. —- Leonardo da Vinci
Steve Jobs
- Think different.
- Stay hungry and stay foolish.
- Keep looking and don't settle.
- Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Stupidity (English), Dummheit (Deutsch), 愚蠢 (中文)
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens. (III, 6; Talbot) -- "Die Jungfrau von Orleans" Tragödie spielen by Friedrich Schiller, 1801 in Leipzig, Deutschland.
Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain. -- "The Maid of Orleans" tragedy play by Friedrich Schiller, written in 1801 in Leipzig, Germany.
面对愚昧，即使神们自己都束手无策。 / 面对愚蠢，众神的争论也无用。 / 面对愚蠢，神们自己也缄口不言。 -- 席勒《圣女贞德》悲剧戏剧，写于1801年，莱比锡城，德国。
TIME
... the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." -- Albert Einstein
A year in the Internet business is like a dog year, equivalent to seven years in a regular person’s life. -- Vint Cerf (Internet pioneer)
Yourself
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up. -- Pablo Picasso