Forest Linden
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The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game.
—Peter Lynch
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
-Joseph Campbell
A new idea is a network of cells exploring the adjacent possible of connections that they can make in your mind.
-Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From
“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.”
-Joanna Maciejewska
To get rich, do work where you get paid in proportion to the number of customers you satisfy instead of the number of hours you work. Not all work of this kind will make you rich, but nearly all of the work that can make you rich is of this kind.
—Paul Graham
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Aside from the distracting patriarchal pronoun, this is a great axiom to remember.
Mankind must acquire two things which are at present increasingly disappearing: loving kindness and scientific impartiality.
—Bertrand Russell
we are simply incapable of imagining ourselves on the other side of a profound change, because the present self doing the imagining is the very self that needs to have died in order for the future self being imagined to emerge.
This is why the profoundest changes tend to happen not willed but spawned by fertile despair — the surrender at the rock bo
... See more“What we do for ourselves dies with us when we leave this planet. What we do for other people can live on forever.” ~Sir Ken Robinson
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all I’m offering is the truth, nothing more.”
— Morpheus (The Matrix)