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“When you ask what are electrons and protons I ought to answer that this question is not a profitable one to ask and does not really have a meaning. The important thing about electrons and protons is not what they are but how they behave, how they move. I can describe the situation by comparing it to the game of chess. In chess, we have various chessmen, kings, knights, pawns and so on. If you ask what chessman is, the answer would be that it is a piece of wood, or a piece of ivory, or perhaps just a sign written on paper, or anything whatever. It does not matter. Each chessman has a characteristic way of moving and this is all that matters about it. The whole game os chess follows from this way of moving the various chessmen.”
― Paul A.M. Dirac

“Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.”
― Paul A.M. Dirac

“We lacked something that is the key to a successful startup, and it was bigger than sound quality. It was emotional investment. If you don’t love what you’re building, if you’re not an avid user yourself, then you will most likely fail even if you’re doing everything else right.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.”
― Roland Barthes, Mythologies

“Metáforas são boas para iluminar a vida, mas se levadas além de seus limites, acabam provocando confusão: não é porque sua namorada é linda como uma flor que você deve adubá-la.”
― Carlos Orsi

“In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.”
― Benjamin Graham