You're right till you can be

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

- Charles Wadsworth

I fight so that you can too

I might disapprove with everything you say, but I'll fight till death for your right to say it.

- Voltaire or whatever quoteinvestigator points to

Nihil sine nobis

Nihil de nobis, sine nobis (nothing about us, without us)

- Unknown

Intangibles are the only tangibles

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, not the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

- Ecclesiastes 9:11

In his world, intangibles are the only tangibles because anything tangible is vapor, it would vanish, its tangibility is momentary whereas intangibles last infinite lifetimes.

- Rahul Gupta

From the west to the east

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

- Dorothy Thompson

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

- Bob Dylan

lone doesn't mean weak

Don't be afraid of being outnumbered. Eagles fly alone. Pigeons flock together.

- Unknown

shooting stars of C++

C++ is beautiful because every day I come across very different and elegant solutions to the same problem. It hurts because you are always a * away from shooting yourself in the foot.

- Quora answer, Rishabh Mukherjee

can we really count what counts?

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted, counts.

- unknown but effective quote writer

Covid-19 is nature's exponential maths

For us, the new age humans, events like epidemics and plagues look really out of place as we imagine them to be belonging to an Earth that was yet not controlled by humans. But the truth is, these events are extremely common in nature that has her pendulum swinging constantly and the momentum to it is provided by the exponential maths she uses.

- Samir Shukla, in a newspaper article

Path to hope is courage

It takes courage to choose hope over fear.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Law of the Jungle keeps it safe from deteriorating into actual one

William Roper: "So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!"

Sir Thomas More: "Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?"

William Roper: "Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!"

Sir Thomas More: "Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!"

- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

Happen-ink

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

- Michael Jordan

Condition and Conditioned

"our air" conditioned
"our water" filtered
"our milk" bottled and pasteurised
"our floor" very very well sanitized
"our food" packaged
"our health" capsuled

when the climate changes
and the nature fails
we will be enjoying
our bottled gale

Times they are changin'
Times we are not
temperatures are climbing
to either flood or drought

- Rahul Gupta

Thought about it

The thoughts that run in our nerves are dangerous than the blood that flows in our veins.

- Rahul Gupta