KILL YOUR ENTITLEMENTALITY

Do favors. Unbidden. Don’t ask for anything in return, be the nice guy that people always remember. Help folks. Nobody wants to be ‘drip marketed’ to, but they do remember when someone helps them. Be that guy. Don’t even think that they owe you one. [via]

• Why remember something if I can look it up? –Albert Einstein [citation needed]
• Alan: I always feel slightly sick to my stomach when I work alone in the office late at night.
  Denise: I thought you liked being alone.
  Alan: Oh, I love being alone. I just prefer to be alone when there’s other people around.
  –Alan Shore, Boston Legal
• “As an extremely unlikeable person, I find it difficult to stay angry at all the people who want to kill me, don’t you?…Yes, that witty come-back is waiting for you in your office.”
  –Alan Shore, Boston Legal
• Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching. –Unknown
• Last night, I went to bed with a book. Not as much fun as a 29 year old, but the book contained a speech by Adlai Stevenson. The year was 1952. He said, “The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live and fear breeds repression. Too often, sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-Communism.”
• Today, it’s the cloak of anti-terrorism. Stevenson also remarked, “It’s far easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.”
  –Alan Shore, Boston Legal
• “Well, it’s not ours, but it’s not yours either naa.” –Jyot Talreja, http://vignettinglife.com/true-story/
• All I am asking for is my chance to prove that money cant make me happy. –Abhishek Thakkar, Twitter
• $sudo shutdown -h Now
• To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. —Abraham Maslow
• “You’ve got questions. We’ve got dancing paperclips.” –Microsoft
• There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
• You must be the change you wish to see in the world. –M K Gandhi
• “Do or do not… there is no try.” –Yoda
• if u have sex in office, ur boss can never accuse u of not doing productive work. –Manan Kakkar, Twitter
• If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0
• Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. —Oscar Wilde
• I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code
• Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. —Kurt Vonnegut
• If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he’ll do is take it apart to figure out how it works. –Jamie Zawinski
• well as i would say from my experience, engineering is a 16 week course. –Lokesh Awasthy, Twitter
• Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. —Will Rogers
• People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. —Zig Ziglar
• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. —Aristotle
• They are being mean to me. Calling me hot and then saying it is only my pic that is Chromaticity-cally hot. –@Mahafreed
• Maths, the only subject that counts. –@FunnyJoker
• Talk is cheap. Show me the code. –Linus Torvalds.
• Happiness won’t do, I demand ecstasy. –Calvin
• "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

  You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
  
  "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. 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. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. I have always wished that for myself. And now, I wish that for you."

  - Steve Jobs (Commencement speech at Stanford University).