Quotes I’m Pondering
(Tim Ferriss: April 1–April 15, 2016)
“Genius is only a superior power of seeing.”
–John Ruskin
Victorian polymath, art critic, philanthropist, and social thinker
“As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
American essayist, leader of the 19th-century transcendentalist movement
“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”
–Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft