Sam Altman on the importance of quality:

vutran | Nov. 3, 2020, 8:18 a.m.

"All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people. What this means is that if you want to be a great company some day, you have to eventually build something so good that people will recommend it to their friends—in fact, so good that they want to be the first one to recommend it to their friends for the implied good taste. No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product."

— Sam Altman on the importance of quality

Henry Ford on building a reputation is not from what we are going to do

vutran | Nov. 2, 2020, 2:23 p.m.

“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.”

—Henry Ford

Richard Feynman on statements of science

vutran | Nov. 2, 2020, 8:57 a.m.

“Statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known to different degrees of certainty… Every one of the concepts of science is on a scale graduated somewhere between, but at neither end of, absolute falsity or absolute truth.”

— Richard Feynman

JFK on who, where, when

vutran | Nov. 2, 2020, 8:52 a.m.

“If not us who, if not here where, if not now when?” 

— JFK

Great quote on gentleness and love over anger and sadness

vutran | Nov. 2, 2020, 8:50 a.m.

“ No matter what happens, at some point you have to stop being so angry, you have to stop being so sad, you have to start being gentle with yourself. At some point you have to just let it all go and be happy, you have to spread love instead of being afraid of it. You have to love yourself and everyone around you before it's too late. 

Don't waste away being unhappy over trivial things. Don't do it. Don't do it to yourself and don't let other people do it to you.”

— Great quote on gentleness and love over anger and sadness

Anne Frank on the flow from writing

vutran | Nov. 1, 2020, 12:55 p.m.

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”

— Anne Frank

Emery Allen on impermanance

vutran | Nov. 1, 2020, 12:52 p.m.

Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting. Sometimes people come into your life to show you what is right and what is wrong, to show you who you can be, to teach you to love yourself, to make you feel better for a little while, or to just be someone to walk with at night and spill your life to. Not everyone is going to stay forever, and we still have to keep on going and thank them for what they’ve given us.