In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
— Mortimer Adler
Albert Einstein
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
- Author: Mortimer Adler
Schopenhauer
“One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.
In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.”
Nietzsche
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
Elon Musk
“Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.”
Elon Musk
“It’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.”
Steve Jobs
“Creativity is just connecting things.”
Schopenhauer
“It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them; but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents.
To desire that a man should retain everything he has ever read, is the same as wishing him to retain in his stomach all that he has ever eaten.”
Elon Musk
“It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”