“Don't worry about having few friends, people should recommend or elect you base on what you have done, not because they know you”
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Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
Biblical Series I: Introduction to the Idea of God
20 May 2017
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-wWBGo6a2w
Biblical Lectures
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Dialogue between Russell and his daughter Katharine, as quoted in My Father – Bertrand Russell (1975)
Attributed from posthumous publications
Howard H. Aiken (1900–1973) pioneer in computing, original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer
As quoted in Portraits in Silicon (1987) by Robert Slater
As quoted in A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus (1988) by Eric A. Weiss, p. 404
Variant: Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Ernest King (1878–1956) United States Navy admiral, Chief of Naval Operations
From Time magazine's interview with King, Volume XL, Number 23 (December 7, 1942), p. 32.
1940s
“Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
In the perl man page regarding chroot(2).
Documentation
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
Jace and Clary, pg. 318
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)