Davor

“Our society respects someone’s throwing himself into sports, but anybody who works very long hours is regarded as sick, a workaholic. So the prejudices of the majority say that sports are good and fun, but work is drudgery, a necessary evil, and in no way a source of pleasure.”
― Andrew S. Grove, High Output Management

“Sometimes the problem is to discover what the problem is.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Design of Design, The: Essays from a Computer Scientist

“Stoicism is thus from the outset a deterministic system that appears to leave no room for human free will or moral responsibility. In reality the Stoics were reluctant to accept such an arrangement, and attempted to get around the difficulty by defining free will as a voluntary accommodation to what is in any case inevitable. According to this theory, man is like a dog tied to a moving wagon. If the dog refuses to run along with the wagon he will be dragged by it, yet the choice remains his: to run or be dragged.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.”
― Charlie Munger