If you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments.

To know and not to do, is really not to know. To learn and not to do is not to learn. In other words, to understand something but not apply it is really not to understand it.

Prayer for our loved ones. Prayer for our own personal needs or projects. Prayer for each other.

Any investment that has become a topic of widespread conversation is likely to be hazardous to your wealth. Invariably, the hottest stocks or funds in one period are the worst performers in the next.

A great lawyer will help you focus on what really matters (economics and control), while a bad lawyer will make everything worse for you. So choose an experienced lawyer.

Even though you may stop writing code, your job will require that you guide technical decision making… you have the job of … making sure that the decisions pass the technical smell test and have been balanced against the overall context of the team and the business.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

Bob Noyce realized it was the civilian computer market, not the military, that would drive chip demand. He aggressively cut prices so that chips could be plugged into civilian computers, fueling the industry’s growth.

The Christian view of life has exerted an influence on the Jewish and heathen, and the heathen and Jewish view of life has, too, exerted an influence on the Christian.

Buy shares in solid companies with earning power and don’t let go of them without a good reason. The stock price going down is not a good reason.