S Sreenadh

“The two board games that best approximate the strategies of war are chess and the Asian game of go. In chess, the board is small. In comparison to go, the attack comes relatively quickly, forcing a decisive battle.... Go is much less formal. It is played on a large grid, with 361 intersections — nearly six times as many positions as in chess.... [A game of go] can last up to three hundred moves. The strategy is more subtle and fluid than chess, developing slowly; the more complex the pattern your stones initially create on the board, the harder it is for your opponent to understand your strategy. Fighting to control a particular area is not worth the trouble: You have to think in larger terms, to be prepared to sacrifice an area in order eventually to dominate the board. What you are after is not an entrenched position but mobility. With mobility you can isolate your opponent in small areas and then encircle them... Chess is linear, position oriented, and aggressive; go is nonlinear and fluid. Aggression is indirect until the end of the game, when the winner can surround the opponents' stones at an accelerated pace.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“തിരിച്ച് സ്നേഹിക്കില്ല എന്നറിഞ്ഞിട്ടും നീണ്ടു നിന്നേക്കില്ല എന്നറിഞ്ഞിട്ടും പിന്നേയും സ്നേഹിക്കാൻ പറ്റുന്നതാണ് 'സ്നേഹം' എന്ന വാക്കിനെ അത്ഭുതമാക്കുന്നത്.”
― Joseph Annamkutty Jose, Daivathinte Charanmar - You Could Be One

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear