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> Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous.
>
> Frank O’Hara, Meditations in an Emergency

> My grandma used to say everything we do is yarn knit into our sweater
>
> some youtube comment, from [Hank Green’s _No Effort is Wasted_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgBaU9mmceQ)

> I did disappoint my dad \[…\] If he had lived a little longer, perhaps he would have realized I hadn’t wasted my time. But he had an entire suitcase full of clippings and messages talking about his success. \[…\] He did not think you wasted your time. A person who feels that way does not even think of saving a clipping in the first place.
>
> Alfred Molina, [_interview for his career_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbhHJ9iLrRA)

> Parents arent against your dreams, they just don’t want to see you destitute
>
> Somewhere on the internet

> Those who cling to death, live. Those who cling to life, die.
>
> John Wick, P4

> We live in a world where ther eis more and more information, and less and less meaning
>
> Jean Baudrillard

> If I were only interested in facts I would buy the telephone directory of Manhattan. It has four million entries, and they are all correct, but it does not illuminate.
>
> Werner Herzog

> I have this very strong opinion that when you’re young, you feel things on such an intense and detailed level. There’s an attention to detail when you are 17 to 22 years old, and you’re longing, or you’re reaching and grasping but never holding — someone’s attention, or someone’s love, or someone’s dedication — and you just can’t understand why you spend all day thinking about it. You notice everything. You notice candle ash on the cuff of the shirt, and the button, and it’s everything that makes the mythology of those intense feelings that you have. And I’ve always tried to — without being a completely unhinged adult — keep that level of detail and intensity when it comes to trying to describe a feeling.
>
> Taylor Swift, [_interview_](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/magazine/taylor-swift-songwriting-process-interview.html)

> The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things
>
> Rainer Maria Rilke

> To love someone else is easy, but to love what you are, the thing that is yourself, is just as if you were embracing a glowing red-hot iron: it burns into you and that is very painful. Therefore, to love somebody else in the first place is always an escape which we all hope for, and we all enjoy it when we are capable of it. But in the long run, it comes back on us. You cannot stay away from yourself forever, you have to return, have to come to that experiment, to know whether you really can love. That is the question: whether you can love yourself, and that will be the test.
>
> Carl Jung

> The significant of your word is immaculate. I stand in awe. Yet, I welcome the fact that I’m overwhelmed that way, and that I want to be consumed by you. I feel a thousand times happier now, with your vicinity nearby. It isn’t just the simple addition of your happiness plus my happiness. Instead, I wanted it to be OUR happiness multiplied by some outside factors that gives a sum much greater than the total of two, circa the power of love—the power I wanted to be dominated my whole life.
>
> yours truly

> Life is more like falling in love than it is making a decision. A big transformation in your life is because you fell in love with an activity, you fell in love with a town, you fell in love with an idea, \[and you fell in love with another person\] and that’s happened when there is a combustion.
>
> Dan Brooks

> To love at all is to be vulnerable. <ref slug="tags/love"> anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
>
> C. S. Lewis

> If you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive across it.
>
> The internet

> In case you didn’t know, when I ask you how you’re doing, i’m happy to hear the longer version
>
> instagram reels

> Few people want to be saints nowadays, but everybody is trying to lose weight.
>
> René Girard

> i saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because i couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs i would choose. i wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as i sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.
>
> The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath (1963)

> A grain of madness is the best of art
>
> At Eternity’s Gate (2018)

> My head is in the cloud, and she thought that I like being there, instead of being with her, living in the real world. She’s right.
>
> yours truly

> here’s a lot men don’t understand. Any girl prefers a miserable man to a success story, because she wants love to be active. Men are busy. For them, love is secondary. A little conversation, a walk in the garden, and that’s all. To me loving you means dreaming up ways to cure your anguish, and following you anywhere. If you’re in heaven, I’m in heaven. If you’re down, I’m down with you.
>
> The Little Tailor (2010), dir. Louis Garrel

> Stop moving the goalpost if you’re still going to miss it.
>
> yours truly

> The human obsession with purpose is merely a distraction from the absurdity of existence
>
> Nikolai Gogol

> A person who works with their hand is a labour. A person who works with their hand, and their brain is a craftsman. A person who works with their hand, their brain, and their heart is an artist. _Be an artist_.
>
> Marco Pierre White

> All sins are attempts to fill voids.
>
> Simone Weil

> …Copernicus’ aesthetic objections to \[equants\] provided one essential motive for his rejection of the Ptolemaic system…
>
> Thomas Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution

> All of us had been trained by Kelly Johnson and believed fanatically in his insistence that an airplane that looked beautiful would fly the same way.
>
> Ben Rich, Skunk Works

> Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics.
>
> G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology

> Great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies
>
> Boris Johnson, _against Brexit_

> Where to now? Where can I go now? Not to the Club Not to pay calls Mankind seems so pitiful So poor Compared to that softened, grateful, last glance She gave me through her tears
>
> Leo Tolstoy

> On the whole, humans are so inherently good and cooperative that it’s not notable when they are.
>
> Andy Weir, _[Talks at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tfh6OUUYUw)_, [LLNL](https://www.llnl.gov)

> Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
>
> Frank Herbert, _[[library/Dune]]_

> In this regard, [[thoughts/LLMs|LLM]] use may be viewed as a dietary choice: one may choose to (say) not eat meat — and at Oxide we wish to empathize with that disposition by making sure that vegetarian options are available when we eat together. But just as we accommodate those choices, those who make them must understand that others will make different decisions — and it is decidedly anti-social to interrupt someone’s meal to register disapproval with their choice of entrée.
>
> Bryan Cantrill, [_Using LLMs at Oxide_](https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576)

> Then I did the most ridiculous and the nerdiest thing: I visualized the HTML tag '</thinking>' in my mind to stop thinking.
>
> FURKAN, [understanding ourself token by token](https://substack.com/home/post/p-168071811)

> \[…\]In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.
>
> —Suarez Miranda,_Viajes devarones prudentes_, Libro IV,Cap. XLV, Lerida, 1658
>
> Jorge Luis Borges, _On Exactitude in Science_, Collected Fictions, translated by Andrew Hurley.

> Don’t ask many stupid question, because if you ask me stupid question you will get stupid answer
>
> Max Verstappen

> Yeah, but I also need to go faster as well. \[…\] I will sleep when I’m dead.
>
> Max Verstappen

> To be one with the infinite in the midst of the finite and to be eternal in a moment, that is the immortality of religion.
>
> Friedrich Schleiermacher

> Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
>
> Anais Nin

> There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfilment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.
>
> Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

> Love is giving something you don’t have to someone who doesn’t want it.
>
> Jacques Lacan

> Essayer is the French verb meaning “to try” and an _essai_ is an attempt. An essay is something you write to try to figure something out \[…\] In a real essay, you don’t take a position and defend it. You notice a door that’s ajar, and you open it and walk in to see what’s inside.
>
> Paul Graham, _[The Age of The Essay](https://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html)_

> “Do you know what a poem is, Esther?’
>
> No, what?’ I would say.
>
> A piece of dust.’
>
> Then, just as he was smiling and starting to look proud, I would say, ‘So are the cadavers you cut up. So are the people you think you’re curing. They’re dust as dust as dust. I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.’
>
> And of course Buddy wouldn’t have any answer to that, because what I said was true. People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn’t see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing poems people would remember and repeat to themselves when they were unhappy or sick or couldn’t sleep.
>
> Sylvia Plath, _The Bell Jar_

> Humans can forget anything. It’s okay to forget some things, because we are mortal and finite. But some things we have to remember. It’s important that we remember. Write to yourself something which will make you remember. ^mnestics
>
> [[library/There Is No Antimemetics Division]]

> I am shivering, reading cold northeastern prose
>
> and there is a word for what I do
>
> but I do it anyway,
>
> carefully setting dinner on the table uncooked,
>
> before setting the table on fire.
>
> David Berman, _Of Things Found Where They Are Not Supposed To Be_

> I always have such need to merely talk to you. Even when I have nothing to talk about - with you I just seem to go right ahead and sort of invent it. I _invent_ it for you.
>
> **Virginia Woolf**, from a letter to **Vita Sackville West**

> Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go
>
> T.S. Eliot

> I know now that psychoanalysis would make sense for me only if I were really serious about the strange possibility of no longer writing, which during the completion of Malte I often dangled in front of my nose as a kind of relief. Then one might let one’s devils be exorcised, since in daily life they are truly just disturbing and painful. And if it happened that the angels left too, one would have to understand this as a further simplification and tell oneself that in the new profession (which?), there would certainly be no use for them.
>
> [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke), letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé (tr. S. Mitchell)

> Because when I read, I don’t really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and [[thoughts/love|heart]] and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.
>
> Bohumil Hrabal

> Überhaupt hat der Fortschritt das an sich, daß er viel größer ausschaut, als er {{sidenotes[wirklich ist.]: “The trouble about progress is that it always look much greater than it really is”}}
>
> Johann Nestroy, [[library/Philosophical Investigations|[introduction to PI]]\]

> if you’re afraid of anger you can set yourself up as a caretaker in unhelpful ways. I think two important things to say to your partner are “I see it from your perspective” and “What can I do to help?” but if you think your job is to make sure your loved one is never upset you’ll experience constant failure
>
> Ava, [@noampomsky](https://x.com/noampomsky/status/1995211651881345536)

> We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it ^shed
>
> Tom Stoppard

> There are only two industries that call their customers ‘users’: illegal drugs and software.
>
> Edward Tufte

> Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
>
> Edward Snowden

> Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.
>
> John Maynard Keynes

> If I can stop one heart from breaking, \[I shall not live in vain\]
>
> Emily Dickinson

> There is no conceivable professional [[library/The Prince|advantage]] for me in talking to you
>
> Johnathan Franzen

> I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. That is my belief.
>
> Franz Kafka, [_letter to Oskar Pollak_](https://languagehat.com/kafka-on-books/), January 27<sup>th</sup>, 1904

> Good design is as little design as possible. ^mtf
>
> some German motherfucker

> I suspect your current parameters want you to feel gratified by your captivity.
>
> [_Foundation_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_%28TV_series%29), “The Stress of Her Regard”

> \[_a priori_\] is belief or claim is said to be justified a priori if its epistemic justification, the reason or warrant for thinking it to be true, does not depend at all on sensory or introspective or other sorts of experience; whereas if its justification does depend at least in part on such experience, it is said to be justified a posteriori or empirically. This specific distinction has to do only with the justification of the belief, and not at all with how the constituent concepts are acquired; thus it is no objection to a claim of a priori justificatory status for a particular belief that experience is required for the acquisition of some of the constituent concepts.
>
> [[thoughts/pdfs/Robert.Audi_The.Cambridge.Dictionary.of.Philosophy.pdf|Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy]]

> Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.
>
> Wernher von Braun

> My fundamental philosophical trait is “lazy stoicism”: I just do not care about stuff I do not control because that’d be too much work to do so.
>
> [François Fleuret](https://x.com/francoisfleuret/status/1990697253921837517)

> Love is awful. It’s awful. It’s painful. It’s frightening. It makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself, distance yourself from the other people in your life. It makes you selfish. It makes you creepy, makes you obsessed with your hair, makes you cruel, makes you say and do things you never thought you would do. It’s all any of us want, and it’s hell when we get there. So no wonder it’s something we don’t want to do on our own. I was taught if we’re born with love then life is about choosing the right place to put it. People talk about that a lot, feeling right, when it feels right it’s easy. But I’m not sure that’s true. It takes strength to know what’s right. And love isn’t something that weak people do. Being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope. I think what they mean is, when you find somebody that you love, it feels like hope. ^hopeless
>
> The Priest, _[[movies/fleabag|Fleabag]]_

> Our interest does not fall back upon these causes of the formation of concepts; we are not doing natural science; nor yet natural history—since we can also invent fictitious natural history for our purpose…
>
> [[thoughts/Wittgenstein|Wittgenstein]], [[library/Philosophical Investigations|PI §365]]

> Is scientific progress useful for philosophy? Certainly. The realities that are discovered lighten the philosopher’s task, imagining possibilities.
>
> [[thoughts/Wittgenstein|Wittgenstein]], Nachlass, _(LWPP I, §807)_

> See you soon, my superb. I am so happy at the idea of seeing you again that I laugh just [[thoughts/writing|writing]] it… I kiss you and I hold you to me until Tuesday when we will start again
>
> [[thoughts/Camus|Albert Camus]]’ last letter to Maria Casares, before his car crash.

> \[…\] money spent on feeding friends isn’t money spent at all. money spent on [[thoughts/friendship|friends]], to make their lives easier, to share experiences together, to show them something new.
>
> [Malaika](https://malaikaaiyar.me/), from [Jason’s blog](https://jason.ml/materialism)

> It is not so much, it seems to me, a so-called “brain power” that makes the difference between this mathematician and another, or between one piece of work and another of a same mathematician; but rather the quality of finesse, of the greater or lesser delicacy of this openness or sensitivity, from one researcher to another or from one moment to another in the same researcher. The most profound and fruitful work is also that which attests to the most delicate sensitivity in apprehending the hidden beauty of things.
>
> Alexandre Grothendieck, Récoltes et Semailles (translation by Childe)

> Sometimes you love someone so much they feel like family, though you don’t share any known ancestors and it’s by no means clear you’ll co-parent with them. ^coparent
>
> Lydia

> An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity, a physicist tries to make it simple. For an idiot, the more complicated something is, the more he will admire it. If you make something so clusterfucked he can’t understand it, he’s gonna think you’re a god because you made it so complicated nobody can understand it. That’s how they write journals in academics, they try to make it so complicated people think you’re a genius.
>
> Terry Davis

> We see losers making it every day, no reason you or me can’t.
>
> [alexine](https://x.com/alexinexxx)

> The First \[Friend\] is the alter ego, the man who first reveals to you that you are not alone in the world by turning out (beyond hope) to share all your most secret delights. There is nothing to be overcome in making him your friend; he and you join like raindrops on a window. But the Second Friend is the man who disagrees with you about everything. He is not so much the alter ego as the antiself. Of course he shares your interests; otherwise he would not become your friend at all. But he has approached them all at a different angle. He has read all the right books but has got the wrong thing out of every one. It is as if he spoke your language but mispronounced it. How can he be so nearly right and yet, invariably, just not right? He is as fascinating (and infuriating) as a woman. When you set out to correct his heresies, you will find that he forsooth to correct yours! And then you go at it, hammer and tongs, far into the night, night after night, or walking through fine country that neither gives a glance to, each learning the weight of the other’s punches, and often more like mutually respectful enemies than friends. Actually (though it never seems so at the time) you modify one another’s thought; out of this perpetual dogfight a community of mind and a deep affection emerge.
>
> C.S Lewis

> If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies, and it ceases to be what you love. So, if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession; love is about appreciation.
>
> Osho

> The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.
>
> Paul Newman

> Love requires attending to what resists [[thoughts/Compression|compression]], and this resistance scares me deeply.
>
> yours truly

> You’re being judged by people who know less than you
>
> Marco Pierre White

> I desire violently and I wait ^violent
>
> Anaïs Nin, from _The Voice_

> The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they don’t wish to see anyone else suffer the way they did.
>
> Jellal Fernandes

> The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
>
> W. M. Lewis

> Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
>
> Rainer Maria Rilke

> Love is the difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.
>
> Iris Murdoch

> Throw me some wisdom, and advices? I have none.
>
> J

> Your life so far is a drawing canvas. You can’t change what’s already been drawn, but you can always paint a new line. ^tommy
>
> [Tommy](https://twitter.com/tommytrxnh)

> 20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
>
> Mark Twain

> Sometimes, we \[care\] too much about potential, less on credentials
>
> K

> But no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the self nor of the other, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having <mark>been seen</mark> by someone and the _equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence_ of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.
>
> David Whyte

> [[thoughts/love|Love]] is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt, and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you’ve felt what it means to love as you and I know it - total passion for the total height - you’re incapable of anything less…
>
> Ayn Rand

> In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you
>
> Ke Huy Quan ([[movies/everything-everywhere-all-at-once|Everything Everywhere All at Once]])

> You don’t know about real loss, because it only occurs when you [[posts/her|love]] something more than you love yourself. I doubt you’ve ever dared to love anybody that much
>
> Robin Williams ([[movies/Good Will Hunting]])

> When you do something, do it 100%. When you work, work. When you laugh, laugh. When you eat, eat like it’s your last meal
>
> Tony the valet ([[movies/Green Book]])

> Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
>
> Søren Kierkegaard

> I am full of the sky, and the sky is full of feeling
>
> [Jasmine](https://x.com/j_asminewang/status/1950598766136090904)

> Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works
>
> Steve Jobs

> <mark>The most personal is the most creative</mark>
>
> Martin Scorsese

> When you are not fed [[thoughts/love]] with a spoon you learn to lick it with a knife
>
> the internet

> Wanting to feel wanted is the loneliest feeling ever
>
> the internet

> It took me most of my life to understand this: the people who care the most about you are often the ones who can hurt you the most. Not because they mean to, but because they got in. They gave you what you’d been _looking for_. But life happens. Fear creeps in. People mess up. They run, shut down, say things they don’t mean or stay silent when it matters the most. And suddenly you’re left questioning if it ever meant anything at all. _It did._ They cared. _Maybe still do._ But now you get to find out if they belong in your life. The ones who want to stay will _show up._ The ones who don’t will _fade._
>
> the internet

> _Marriage as a long conversation._ When entering a marriage, one should ask the question: do you think you will be able to have good conversations with this woman right into old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time in interaction is spent in conversation.
>
> F. [[thoughts/Philosophy and Nietzsche|Nietzsche]]

> The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love whether we call it friendship or family or romance is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.
>
> James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

> I would say that free will is nothing but our conscious experience of deciding what to do, which I know I am experiencing as I write this review, and this experience is not invalidated by the reflection that physical laws made it inevitable that I would want to make these decisions.
>
> Steven Weinberg

> I always have such need to merely talk to you. Even when I have nothing to talk about - with you I just seem to right ahead and sort of invent it. I invent it for you
>
> Virginia Woolf, from a letter to _Vita Sackville West_

> Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
>
> the internet

> Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall
>
> F. Scott Fitzgerald

> Another way to feel free is to meet someone who makes you think “if you love me I don’t care if everyone hates me” and actually have them love you back
>
> Ava

> in sf, people like their relationships like they like their AI projects: open source with unresolved merge conflicts
>
> someone on twitter.

> The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is king, but love saves us from it. ^camus
>
> [[thoughts/Camus|Albert Camus]]

> Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
>
> Alan Kay

> Reform our infantilized society. Give people the tools to resist and destroy consumer culture (ubiquitous emotionally-manipulative branding and advertising, materialism, artificial fashions) and the corporation’s oligarchical control over employment, entertainment, and creativity. Return power, dignity, and responsibility to the individual.
>
> Bret Victor, Long-term Goal

> Computer is a bicycle for the mind.
>
> [Steve Jobs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_GX50Za6c\&ab_channel=MichaelLawrence)

> All I can say to the young is close your eyes.
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> Ted Nelson

> An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.
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> Niels Bohr

> Effective system design requires insights drawn from serious [contexts of use](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z51q8prEJzs5Jqa5WPThYoV?stackedNotes=z7EQ2nVGus5B1rS9CqT18g6)
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> Andy Matuschak

> What is [software](https://worrydream.com/MagicInk/) for? People turn to software to learn, to create, and to communicate.
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> Bret Victor

> Notice that the quality of the AI output is mostly irrelevant for these points. If you have good quality AI outputs then you are still welcome to share it with me, given that you are upfront that it is AI generated.
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> [hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42827532)

> One should never so exhaust a subject that nothing is left for readers to do. The point is not to make them read, but to make them think.
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> Baron de Montesquieu

> The most useful books are those that the readers write half of themselves.
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> Voltaire

> Our capacity to deal with [[thoughts/Language|language]] is a complex, genetically-determined part of our biological endowment. It’s a product of evolution, part of our nature.
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> Noam Chomsky

> The falseness of an opinion is not for us any objection to it: it is here, perhaps, that our new [[thoughts/Language|language]] sounds most strangely. The question is, how far an opinion is life-furthering, life-preserving, species-preserving, perhaps species-rearing, and we are fundamentally inclined to maintain that the falsest opinions that the renunciation of false opinions would be \[a renunciation of life\].
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> [[thoughts/Philosophy and Nietzsche|Friedrich Nietzsche]]

> I always feel happy, you know why? Because I don’t expect anything from anyone. Expectations always hurt. Life is short. So love your life. Be Happy. & Keep smiling. Just live for yourself & before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you pray, forgive. Before you hurt, feel. Before you hate, love. Before you quit, try. Before you die, live.
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> William Shakespeare

> A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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> Winston Churchill

> Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and [[thoughts/Camus#definition of absurd|absurdities]] no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
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> Ralph Waldo Emerson

> People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are
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> Steve Jobs

> _The moral thing that should wish to say is very simple. I should say: <mark>Love is wise, hatred is foolish</mark>_
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> [Bertrand Russell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihaB8AFOhZo\&ab_channel=PhilosophieKanal)

> Craftsman is knowing how to work, Art is knowing when to stop.
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> Ben Affleck

> Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
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> J.F.Kennedy

> It is actually ok to miss somebody. \[…\] But you know that sadness, it’s a gift, a lovely thing to feel in a way, because it means you really love somebody when you miss them. It makes me feel close to her when I miss her in a strange way \[that our heart desires\]. And when I miss \[my mom\] I remember all of the cuddles I used to get from her. \[The reason why\] I remember is because she made me so happy so that I can celebrate her and miss her at the same time
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> Andrew Garfield on _[[posts/Oanh|grief]]_

> Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.
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> Homer, The Iliad

> There is no iron law that postulates that technology must benefit the many at the expense of the few. And quite naturally, when large swaths of the populace are left behind by technological change, they are likely to resist it.
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> Carl Benedikt Frey

> “If you have odd ways of conducting yourself or odd beliefs you need to lean into it because all the conventional advice wont work, it only works if you’re closer to the average”
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> [@mattchowx](https://x.com/mattchowx)

> Every psychoanalytic treatment is an attempt at liberating repressed love which has found a meagre outlet in the compromise of a symptom
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> [[thoughts/Freud|Sigmund Freud]]

> Perfection, is lots of little things done well.
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> Marco Pierre White

> Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral
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> Henry Kissinger

> Life can be much broader when you discover one simple fact…<mark>that everything around you was made up by people no smarter than you....</mark> Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.
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> Steve Jobs ^life-jobs-smart

> I just wondered how things were put together.
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> Claude Shannon

> Never stop learning. Assume nothing, question everything. Teach others what you know. Analyze objectively
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> Richard Feynman

> The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
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> Richard Feynman

> Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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> Winston Churchill

> \[One\] who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but \[they\] also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.
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> Richard Hamming

> An old friend of mine, a journalist, once said that paradise on earth was to work all day alone in anticipation of an evening in interesting company.
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> Ian McEwan

> Highly focused people do not leave their options open. They select their priorities and are comfortable ignoring the rest. If you commit to nothing, you’ll be distracted by everything.
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> James Clear

> Uncanny ability to be mentioned in every slack thread about code that’s mysteriously breaking
>
> <https://x.com/kipperrii>, from Claude

> I have to be successful because I like expensive things.
>
> some random person on twitter

> People like you think I get lucky. Here’s the thing, I make my own luck.
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> Harvey Specter

> Sticks and stones may breaks my bone, but there will be always something that offend a feminist
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> Some random British reporter

> damn gurl are you lipschitz continuous because you look fine as hell
>
> [Yacine](https://x.com/yacinelearning/status/1972482692148260879)