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“إن نظرية المؤامرة لذيذة جدًّا وتشعرنا بالتفوق على الآخرين السطحيين.”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, ‫شربة الحاج داود: مقالات عن العلم وشبه العلم‬

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

“يقولون إن الأمراض التي يتلقى الطفل اللقاح ضدها صارت نادرة أصلًا، وهو تفكير شديد الغباء.. لقد صارت نادرة بسبب اللقاح طبعًا يا حمقى، ويكفي أن يتوقف الناس عن استعمال لقاح شلل الأطفال لبضعة أعوام ويروا النتيجة !”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, ‫شربة الحاج داود: مقالات عن العلم وشبه العلم‬

“when you get a team size over five or six, the performance of your team will start declining quickly.”
― Anonymous

“العشق نبع، فانغمر”
― جلال الدين الرومي, رباعيات جلال الدين الرومي

“When you take a job take a long look at the people you’re going to be working with — because the odds are you’re going to become like them, they are not going to become like you. You can’t change them. If it doesn’t fit who you are, it’s not going to work.”
― Anonymous

“the size of the financial industry in the US had risen astronomically to reach nearly 8 per cent of GDP by 2009. (That was partly the result of changes in how banking was measured.) Yet a bigger banking sector, as we subsequently discovered, was not necessarily a good thing. Much of its size owed to an increasing capacity to generate “sophisticated” products, some of which turned out to be toxic.”
― Anonymous

“The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.”

“In prayer all are equal.”
― Rumi

“George W. Bush, the former US president, is reputed to have complained that the problem with the French is that they do not have a word for entrepreneurship in their language.”
― Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism

“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.”
― Rumi

“Our true nationality is mankind.”
― H.G. Wells

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”
― Rumi

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
― Rumi

“The data suggest that happy people are more likely to get married.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

“A growing body of research suggests that even the smartest people tend to seek out evidence that confirms what they already think, rather than new information that would give them a more robust view of reality.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

“Smart people love to make smart-sounding predictions, no matter how wrong they may turn out to be.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

“Mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student’s performance than a completely different set of factors: namely, how much kids have learned from their parents, how hard they work at home, and whether the parents have instilled an appetite for education.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

“Overall, a portfolio of the “good to great” companies looks like it would have underperformed the S&P 500.”
― Steven D. Levitt, When to Rob a Bank: ...and 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants – A Curated Collection of Witty, Off-Center Economics

“The bigger lesson is that once you understand a behavioral problem, you can sometimes invent a behavioral solution to it. Mental”
― Richard H. Thaler, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

“وداعا أيها الغريب
كانت إقامتك قصيرة، لكنها كانت رائعة
عسى أن تجد جنتك التي فتشت عنها كثيرا

وداعا أيها الغريب

كانت زيارتك رقصة من رقصات الظل
قطرة من قطرات الندى قبل شروق الشمس
لحناً سمعناه لثوان من الدغل
ثم هززنا رؤوسنا وقلنا أننا توهمناه

وداعا أيها الغريب
لكن كل شيء ينتهي!”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, أسطورة النبوءة

“If the p/e of Coca-Cola is 15, you’d expect the company to be growing at about 15 percent a year, etc. But if the p/e ratio is less than the growth rate, you may have found yourself a bargain. A company, say, with a growth rate of 12 percent a year (also known as a “12-percent grower”) and a p/e ratio of 6 is a very attractive prospect.”
― Peter Lynch, One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

“Digital Minimalism A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.”
― Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“قد لا تكون بلادنا أجمل البلاد، لأن هناك بالتأكيد بلدانًا أجمل، ولكن فى الأماكن الأخرى أنت غريب وزائد، أما هنا إن كل ما تفعله ينبع من القلب ويصب فى قلوب الآخرين وهذا الذى يقيم العلاقة بينك وبين كل ما حولك، لأن كل شىء هنا لك.. التفاصيل الصغيرة التى تجعل الانسان يحس بالانتماء والارتباط والتواصل.”
― عبد الرحمن منيف, الآن هنا.. أو شرق المتوسط مرة أخرى

“When I applied to graduate school many years ago, I wrote an essay expressing my puzzlement at how a country that could put a man on the moon could still have people sleeping on the streets. Part of that problem is political will; we could take a lot of people off the streets tomorrow if we made it a national priority. But I have also come to realize that NASA had it easy. Rockets conform to the unchanging laws of physics. We know where the moon will be at a given time; we know precisely how fast a spacecraft will enter or exist the earth's orbit. If we get the equations right, the rocket will land where it is supposed to--always. Human beings are more complex than that. A recovering drug addict does not behave as predictably as a rocket in orbit. We don't have a formula for persuading a sixteen-year-old not to drop out of school. But we do have a powerful tool: We know that people seek to make themselves better off, however they may define that. Our best hope for improving the human condition is to understand why we act the way we do and then plan accordingly. Programs, organizations, and systems work better when they get the incentives right. It is like rowing downstream.”
― Charles Wheelan, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science

“حسبك من السعادة , ضمير نقي , ونفس هادئة , وقلب شريف .”
― مصطفى لطفي المنفلوطي

“إن العظيم عظيم في كل شيء حتى في أحزانه وآلامه”
― مصطفى لطفي المنفلوطي, العبرات

“أكثر الناس يعيشون في نفوس الناس أكثر مما يعيشون في نفوس أنفسهم أي أنهم لا يتحركون ولا يسكنون , ولا يأخذون ولا يدعون إلا لأن الناس هكذا يريدون”
― مصطفى لطفي المنفلوطي

“كان كتاب رديئ لدرجة أنه أبكاني على تلك الشجرة التي قتلت من أجل طباعته”
― Musaed Alshatti

“It is not hard to make money in the market. What is hard to avoid is the alluring temptation to throw your money away on short, get-rich-quick speculative binges. It is an obvious lesson, but one frequently ignored.”
― Burton G. Malkiel, A Random Walk Down Wall Street