Words of Wisdom

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  • First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Gandhi
  • Studying history is the shortest path to wisdom.
  • A government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
  • Past success is your worst enemy.
  • I am all for progress - it is change I don't like - Mark Twain
  • If you're going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill
  • The darkest hour is just before dawn. - Winston Churchill
  • You make a living from what you get, you make a life from what you give. - Winston Churchill
  • Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. - Winston Churchill
  • Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. - Winston Churchill
  • I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. - Winston Churchill
  • To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. - Winston Churchill


  • Success consists of 99% hard work and 1% luck".


Laws

  • Godwin's Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
  • Peter Principle: In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
  • Dilbert principle: Leadership is nature's way of removing morons from the productive flow.
  • Parkinson's Law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
  • Conway's Law: Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it.
  • Dunbar's Number: A theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.
  • Dunning-Kruger Effect: Is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes.


Source: List of eponymous laws