The best teachers I remember from school had three things in common:

1. They had high standards. Like three year olds testing their parents, students will test teachers to see if they can get away with low-quality work or bad behavior. They won’t respect the teachers who don’t call them on it.
2. They liked us. Like dogs, kids can tell very accurately whether or not someone wishes them well. I think a lot of our teachers either never liked kids much, or got burned out and started not to like them. It’s hard to be a good teacher once that happens. I can’t think of one teacher in all the schools I went to who managed to be good despite disliking students.
3. They were interested in the subject. Most of the public school teachers I had weren’t really interested in what they taught. Enthusiasm is contagious, and so is boredom.

Maxims of George Washington

• It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
• The most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it.
• Good company will always be found less expensive than bad.
• By acting reciprocally, heroes have made poets and poets heroes.
• When there is no reason for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent.
• It is easy to make acquaintances but very difficult to shake them off.
• Too much zeal creates suspicion.
• Ridicule begets enmity not easy to be forgotten but easily avoided.
• Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.
• Nothing is more useful for the formation of correct habits than the turning of our comments upon others, back upon ourselves.

He who is not satisfied with little, is satisfied with nothing.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

The limits of language are the limits of your world.

The best advice I ever got was Jim Watson, who co-discovered DNA. Jim is brilliant, and as many brilliant people are a little bit crazy, and Jim has this admonishment which is double meaning, three words: ‘Avoid boring people.’ I love it, because what he’s saying is, ‘Stay away from people who are not interesting,’ avoid boring people, and, ‘Avoid boring people. Don’t be boring to people. Be interesting.’”

Conway's Law:

Organizations which design systems […] are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

Technically, they're doing documentaries, but technically, so is Dog The Bounty Hunter.

I haven't watched all VICE episodes, but from what I've seen, their guidelines seem to be:

• Sensationalism before accuracy.
• Aim for “WTF” rather than “aha”.
• Be awesome…as in use cool sayings for no reason and have radical opinions.
• Don't take anything seriously while you're filming.
• Actively encourage the people in front of the camera to do crazy shit.
• Take pride in all of the above.

The only reward for good work is more work.

Bio sam mlad i glup, nisam shvatao očito: da državna i nacionalna nezavisnost ne znači i tvoju nezavisnost. Fukara će bit’ fukara, nezavisno od nezavisnosti. Djeca tvojih gospodara biće gospodari tvoje djece, i nema tog referenduma koji će vas od toga izbaviti.

Model društvenog ponašanja u ovoj Srbiji je podaništvo i oportunizam.

Some countries have tribes but America has online tribes.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Democracy is characterised by three key items:

• institutions and processes that allow citizens to effectively express their political preferences and to combine these preferences into a package of alternatives from which they can choose,
• institutional constraints on the executive and
• guaranteed civil rights and liberties for all citizens of the state.

Food-poisoning expert reveals 6 things he refuses to eat

1. Raw oysters.
2. Precut or prewashed fruits and veggies.
3. Raw sprouts.
4. Rare meat.
5. Uncooked eggs.
6. Unpasteurized milk and juices.

The human race always does the most intelligent thing after it's exhausted all the stupid ones first.

Meh - sports are sort of like soap operas for men. It's all constant competition and conflict, but in the end, no one has really done anything worthwhile. They are both designed to get you all wrapped up in something that is ultimately meaningless, all so that you can watch advertisements.

Unfortunately, there have been fewer experimental studies on effective productivity and time management methods than there have been on effective study methods. For an overview of scientific opinion on productivity, I recommend pages 121-126 of Psychology Applied to Modern Life. According to those pages, common advice from professionals includes:

1. Doing the right tasks is more important than doing your tasks efficiently. In fact, too much concern for efficiency is a leading cause of procrastination. Say “no” more often, and use your time for tasks that really matter.
2. Delegate responsibility as often as possible. Throw away unimportant tasks and items.
3. Keep a record of your time use. (Quantified Self can help.)
4. Write down your goals. Break them down into smaller goals, and break these into manageable tasks. Schedule these tasks into your calendar.
5. Process notes and emails only once. Tackle one task at a time, and group similar tasks together.
6. Make use of your downtime (plane rides, bus rides, doctor's office waitings). These days, many of your tasks can be completed on your smartphone.