“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable." REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO…
Your mind isn't yours until you fight for it
Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?
Barriers for entry keeps people out, but hoops make for excellent jumpers
Life, if well lived, is long enough
"What happens to a wanderer?” Moses asked Neph. “Does he ever come home?” And Neph answered ruefully that wanderers were those who sought their home – not those who left it. The c…
There are no illegal thoughts
Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of …
His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bug…
Creation requires cooperation. I wish that was taught in schools. Rather than 'follow your heart, but do it quietly'
The hate watch is perverse. You don't even need to think about it. It just is. Your attention is your world. So stop paying attention to bad things. You're making a bad world for …
Ideas that don't work are just as valuable to the human knowledge base as ideas that do. How many bad ideas have you had today? I've had 12. Keep it up!
The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy, a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system o…
I am quite sure that amidst the hustle and bustle of American life, there is a great deal of wistfulness, of the divine desire to lie in a plot of grass under tall beautiful trees…
To himself, everyone is immortal. He can know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead
They're giving us slop because we're accepting slop. It's a race to see who can fall asleep with their phone in their hand first. It doesn't matter who sees the ads, it only matte…
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
If you step on a cockroach you're a hero, if you crush a butterfly you're a monster. Morality has an aesthetic factor
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
*Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.* They change their sky, not their soul, those who rush across the sea.
Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gra…
Life was never supposed to be aware of Death.
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
If you resist change because you like the way things are, but others embrace change, where does that leave you? unchanged and behind. is that a good place to be?
The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend. Don't let hate for one monster make you a slave to another
The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization. The human being created civilization not because of a willingn…
The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to real…
God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment and punishment. Other sentiments towards them were secondary.
The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.