Quotes

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

-Sarah Manguso

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

“No, we don’t need more sleep. It’s our souls that are tired, not our bodies. We need nature. We need magic. We need adventure. We need freedom. We need truth. We need stillness. We don’t need more sleep, we need to wake up and live.”

– Brooke Hampton

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

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficientl

"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

Existence is this delightful dance between nothing and everything.

-a great line via John Mackey, the whole story

A principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.

- Bill Bernbach

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

- Carl Icahn

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

T. S. Eliot