Hays translation
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book IV, 32
“Trying to ignore secondarily meaningful things gives them more meaning than they deserve.”
David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author
30 January 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/8421130524 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy
“Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
John Brunner book Stand on Zanzibar
continuity (13) “Multiply by a Million”
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
“You're truly free for the first time. What could be more difficult than that?”
Octavia E. Butler book Bloodchild and Other Stories
The Book of Martha
Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)
“It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tyron Edwards, p. 525
Context: It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
When asked whether he was concerned over Microsoft Zune's wireless capability, as a product competing with Apple's iPod, as quoted in Newsweek (14 October 2006)
2000s
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 35.
