The Development Compass

“General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.”

“I don’t think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.”

“Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you’re going to do about it.”

“Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.”

“Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”

“Nerds don’t just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity.”

“Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.”