David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author
14 January 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/7740792975 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy
David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author
14 January 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/7740792975 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy
Wei Wu Wei (1895–1986) writer
Part One : The Crossroads, p. 7
Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way (1963)
“We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
“I make 50 cents for showing up … and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.”
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
On his famous $1 annual salary, at the annual Apple shareholder meeting in 2007, as quoted in "Jobs: 'I make fifty cents just for showing up'" in AppleInsider (10 May 2007) http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/05/10/jobs_i_make_fifty_cents_just_for_showing_up.html <br class="br">2000s
“O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,
Why make such game of this poor life of ours?”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Book II, satire viii, p. 94
Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Satires
“O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,
Why make such game of this poor life of ours?”
Heu, Fortuna, quis est crudelior in nos
Te deus? Ut semper gaudes illudere rebus Humanis!
Book II, satire viii, line 61 (trans. Conington)
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) Indian politician
Backward class boys addressing him, quoted in: "We are ruled by an upper caste Hindu raj"