Quotes

Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.

- Carl Icahn

Existence is this delightful dance between nothing and everything.

-a great line via John Mackey, the whole story

“You always have the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”

-Marcus Aurelius

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. — Kurt Vonnegut

The end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

If you have an apple and I have an apple, and we exchange apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

George Bernard Shaw

Only dead fish go with the flow.

-David Ogilvy

“I knew I was getting somewhere when I began losing interest in the beginnings and the ends of things.”

-Sarah Manguso

"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things."

- Ray Bradbury

“Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself. But each map was incomplete, and I would only locate the treasure if I read all the books, and so the process of finding my best self was an endless quest. And books themselves seemed to reflect thi