Terence Faircloth
@atelierteee
Retired Professor from Roosevelt University in Chicago. First computer was a TRS80 Model II; first app was Visicalc. Been at it ever since. Geezers can compute!
Terence Faircloth
@atelierteee
Retired Professor from Roosevelt University in Chicago. First computer was a TRS80 Model II; first app was Visicalc. Been at it ever since. Geezers can compute!
Your mistakes aren’t the best teacher—just the most expensive.
— Farnham Street
We try to make virtues out of the faults we have no wish to correct.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Money only solves money problems.
—Sahil Bloom
You don’t have to be perfect, you just need to be better than yesterday.
Karma vs Schadenfreude — In essence, while karma is a broader spiritual concept about the consequences of actions, schadenfreude is a specific emotional response to others' misfortunes. The two can intersect when someone feels pleasure (schadenfreude) at what they perceive as karmic justice being served to another person.
According to an 1881 obituary in a Louisiana newspaper, the word “bulldozer” was coined by a German immigrant named Louis Albert Wagner, who later committed suicide by taking a hefty dose of opium dissolved in alcohol. Little else is recorded about Wagner, but his term became a viral sensation in late 1800s America, going from street slang to dicti
... See moreIdeas that are hoarded help no one. Success follows generosity.
—James Clear
"The world doesn't need more normal people. Be abnormal."
-- Sahil Bloom
Growth isn’t a byproduct of ease. It’s a byproduct of struggle.
— Sahil Bloom