Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin (1964), The Times They Are A-Changin
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin (1964), The Times They Are A-Changin
John Ashcroft (1942) American politician
Source: Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006), p. 229
“If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.”
Jeff Bezos (1964) American entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Inc.
What Amazon's Jeff Bezos thinks about Peter Thiel and Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker http://boingboing.net/2016/06/01/what-amazons-jeff-bezos-thin.html (BoingBoing) (dubbed "The Bezos Principle" by Walt Mossberg)
“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variant: If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
“In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.”
John Rogers Searle (1932) American philosopher
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Letter (26 August 1940); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
“Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.”
Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor