Quotes I’m Pondering
(Tim Ferriss: Oct. 9–Oct. 30, 2015)
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
–Niels Bohr
Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner
“What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems . . . there’s no law of physics preventing them.”
–Michio Kaku
Physicist and co-founder of string field theory
“These individuals have riches just as we say that we ‘have a fever,’ when really the fever has us.”
–Seneca
Roman Stoic philosopher, famed playwright
“I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.”
–Henry David Thoreau
American essayist and philosopher, author of Walden