The Bodega at the End of the Internet

The amount of serendipity that will occur in your life, your Luck Surface Area, is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you’re passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated. It’s a simple concept, but an extremely powerful one because what it implies is that you can direc

There are just some kind of men who—who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”

Essentially, the underlying geometry of the world is not smooth. Instead, there are "pixels" that cannot be further resolved. Particles do not move continuously, but instead make little quantum leaps from one pixel to the next.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

While falling prices might seem desirable to consumers, economists generally agree deflation is bad. Economywide price erosion typically comes with lackluster corporate investment, wage cuts and a mood of pessimism. No one celebrated when consumer prices fell more than 25% in the U.S. between 1930 and 1933, the outbreak of the Great Depression.

If you have given up your heart for the Tower, Roland, you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.