Jason Fried Quotes

When something is working well, it becomes too easy to let things run themselves.

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• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Computers
  • Cursed

• When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Happy
  • More
  • View

• We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Make
  • Navigate
  • Maze

• I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Like
  • Film
  • Happens

• I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • Looking Forward

• Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Country
  • Best
  • Like

• My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Parents

• Yes, I do come with certain reservations, and I'm not OK with certain things, but rather than focusing on what I don't want to do, I focus on what I do want to do, and I bring that energy, and that happens.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Want
  • Energy
  • Focus

• I have a couture body.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Body

• It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • People
  • Music
  • Poetry

• I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Time
  • Great
  • Script

• It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.

  

  Baron Hill
  • Now
  • Clear
  • Major

• The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Thinking
  • Trouble
  • Discover

• No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Great
  • Alone
  • Service

• I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fight

• Although an important amount of repairs and conservation works have been carried out right from the British period in India these have not compromised to the original qualities of the buildings.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Important
  • Period

• The United States has never entered a serious war, and has never been victorious.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • War
  • Serious

• A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Practice
  • Vulgar
  • Mechanick

• We're really not that good. We're overachieving here and there. But the future looks bright.

  

  Edward Charles Ford
  • Future
  • Bright
  • Overachieving

• conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.

  

  Casey Miller
  • World
  • Children
  • Action

• We feel like we're under no pressure because we don't believe there will be anyone else out there.

  

  Andrew Evans
  • Believe
  • Feel
  • Pressure

• When something is working well, it becomes too easy to let things run themselves.

  

  Jason Fried