Roh.am

Utopia is on the horizon. You take two steps, and it takes two steps. You take ten steps, and it moves away ten. So then what's the point? To keep walking.

We have even a stranger idea: that we will finally fall in love with ourselves only when we have become the totally efficient organized organism we have always wanted to be and left all of our bumbling ineptness behind.   Yet in exactly the way we come to find love and intimacy with others through vulnerability, we come to those same qualities in ourselves through living out the awkwardness of not knowing, of not being in charge.

And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.

"i imagine a world where we smile when we have low batteries, because that'll mean we'll be one bar closer to humanity"

And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth: "You owe me." Look what happens with love like that. It lights up the sky.

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”

The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and shattered into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Of course, when programmers are peers of the program managers, the programmers tend to have the upper hand. Here’s something that has happened several times: a programmer asks me to intervene in some debate he is having with a program manager. “Who is going to write the code?” I asked. “I am…” “OK, who checks things into source control?” “Me, I guess, …” “So what’s the problem, exactly?” I asked. “You have absolute control over the state of each and every bit in the final product. What else do you need? A tiara?”

Blame is not for failure, but for failing to help - or failing to ask for help.

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”

Michael Bloomberg on loyalty: "an obligation to do everything you can"

Whether in sports, business, education or politics, effective leadership requires building high-performing teams and, when it comes that, the critical ingredients for success are competence rather than confidence, altruism rather than egotism, and integrity rather than charisma

Use times of progress to brighten your virtue, recognizing that it is your commitment to proper principles that brought success in the first place.