“If you want good grades, study. If you want to lose weight, exercise. If you want to communicate, make an effort. Methods are always obvious.… Read More »Simple Truths

“I felt dreadfully inadequate. The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Time flies when you’re having fun.” – Various

“Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their… Read More »Genius and Effort

“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.” – Alfred Hitchcock

“Linux is only free if your time has no value.” – Jamie Zawinski

“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time — none, zero.… Read More »Wisdom Through Reading

“As illustrated by Oscar Wilde, there is a kind of antinomy between reading and creating, since every reader runs the risk, lost as he is… Read More »Reading vs Creating

“I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.” – Oscar Wilde (Quoted in How to Talk about Books You Haven’t Read)

“To the critic, the work of art is simply a suggestion for a new work of his own, that need not necessarily bear any obvious… Read More »Critic as Creator