My Quote Collection
Not the most erudite or philosophically pertinent. But still, I wrote them down.
Intuition is experience distilled. Unknown.
When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him. Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche
The human body is a network of tubes that exists to distribute resources efficiently. Some Podcast.
One can adopt one set of principles in private and a different set in public without any inconsistency; all one has to do is make one’s overriding principle the pursuit of self-interest, and then use ethical reasoning in public situations for the purpose of impressing others with one’s impartiality, but not as a real guide to one’s actions. This is hypocritical, but the hypocrisy is part of a consistent design for promoting one’s own interests.” Expanding Circles Peter Singer Page 144
The trivial many and the vital few. Essentialist Book & Modern Wisdom Podcast
The conversation we are having with ourselves we can’t have with others. Sam Harris
Confidence is attractive. Confidence comes from results. And results come from skill acquisition. Unknown
Don't worry everyone’s pretending. Steven Pemberton.
Making mistakes makes you smarter. Really fast. Hedge Podcast on NAF
Just be authentic in the moment and no one can fu*k you. Unknown.
I 100% guarantee we will not pay more than 10% of that. Neil Schroeder.
There is a way to catch your dreams without falling asleep. Seinabo Sey
We all have multitudes. Unknown
Everything fails all the time. Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO).
We are all struggling mortals with fleeting lives trying to be right as often as we can. Bill Clinton.
I think that I shall never see
A graph more lovely than a tree.
A tree whose crucial property
Is loop-free connectivity.
A tree that must be sure to span
So packets can reach every LAN.
First, the root must be selected.
By ID, it is elected.
Least cost paths from root are traced.
In the tree, these paths are placed.
A mesh is made by folks like me,
Then bridges find a spanning tree.
Radia Perlman.
WeWork will fail in catastrophic fashion before June 2023. Luke Richardson December 2022.
Let chaos reign. Then reign in chaos. Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel.
It takes aeons of evolution and perpetual starvation. Unknown.
Is there music and art and invention? I hope you are dancing in heaven. Cause here on earth something is missing. Dancing in the sky.
I know people who graduated college at 21 and didn’t get a job until they were 27. I know people who graduated at 25 and got a job immediately. I know people who never went to university and found what they love at 18. I know people who have children and are single, I know people who are married and had to wait 8-10 years to be parents. I know people who are in a relationship and love someone else, I know people who love each other and aren’t together, there are people waiting to love and be loved. My point is, everything in life happens according to our time, our clock. You may look at your friends and some may seem to be ahead or behind you, but they are not, they are living according to the pace of their clock, so be patient. The Minds Journal.
Nobody gets through this life unscathed. Are you going to drown in your grief?
We are all going to die. So we may as-well live.
Long story short... they forgot that they are all brothers and sisters, co-habiting the same planet, so they kinda became delusional and imagined these invisible borders, beliefs and structures separating them, and started destroying each other and the earth they live on ... instead of just living, sharing, creating and evolving together. Internet adage.
Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that the Nature he is destroying is the God he is worshipping. Hert Reeves.
I wish people cared as much about the earth as they did about who they think created it… Internet adage.
Shakespeare said: 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.
Be Happy & Smile. Listen, Think, Earn, Forgive, Feel, Love, Live.
It all started with an argument over whose God was more peace-loving, kind, and forgiving. Internet adage with image of cartoon war chaos & destruction.
I do not believe anything. Most people, even the educated, think that everybody must believe something or other, that if one is not a theist, one must be a dogmatic atheist, and if one does not think Capitalism is perfect, one must believe fervently in Socialism, and if one does not have blind faith in X one must alternatively have blind faith in not-X or the reverse of X. My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. Robert Anton Wilson.
Luke Comment
I think belief is the distillation of others' intelligence. Humans categorize and simplify, which is likely why we are unable to perceive actual reality. Evolution has abstracted us from the complexity that lays beneath our perception.
The one thing I know for sure is that feelings are rarely mutual, so when they are, drop everything, forget belongings and expectations, forget the games, the two days between texts, the hard-to-gets because this is it, this is what the entire world is after and you've stumbled upon it by chance, by accident--so take a deep breath, take a step forward, now run, collide like planets in the system of a dying sun, embrace each other with both arms and let all the rules, the opinions and common sense crash down around you. Because this is love, kid, and it’s all yours. Believe me, you're in for one hell of a ride, after all--this is the one thing I know for sure. Beau Taplin.
I can bring you more misery than words can tell. Come take my hand, let me lead you to hell. Signed, Drugs.
Do you know why I am stopping you? Well Officer, a crime requires an injured party. Seeing as there isn't one, I can assume you're attempting to manufacture my consent to a contract with the State's corporate policy in order to generate revenue as part of a racketeering scam. Police officer traffic stopping an astute person.
The world is not divided between East & West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same. Marjane Satrapi, Iranian Graphic Novelist.
The secret to finding all knowledge is to use exactly the right keywords when you google. Internet adage.
I like weird people... the black sheep, the odd ducks, the rejects, the eccentrics, the loners, the lost and forgotten. More often than not, these people have the most beautiful souls. Internet adage.
Only the cool kids are enlightened. Ironic Internet adage.
Stress is caused by giving a fuck. Internet adage.
I want to be happy but something inside me screams that I do not deserve it. HealthyPlace.com
Stars can't shine without darkness. Internet adage.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. Internet adage.
The scariest thing about distance is you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget about you. The Notebook, Internet adage.
One awesome thing about Eeyore is that even though he is basically clinically depressed, he still gets invited to participate in adventures and shenanigans with all of his friends. And they never expect him to pretend to feel happy, they just love him anyway, and they never leave him behind or ask him to change. David Avocado Wolfe - re Winnie the Poo.
Never apologize for what you feel. It’s like saying sorry for being real. Internet adage.
The creative adult is the child who survived. Internet adage with image of man doing graffiti.
We do not grow absolutely chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present and future mingle and pull us backward and forward. Or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations. Anais Nin.
That's the way the cookie crumbles. James Rose 2003 Drawing of a cookie crumbling resin into a bed.
Luke Comment
James was my last remaining close friend. He died of heart failure in the year following the Covid pandemic. I miss him more than words can say. I hope everyone has or had a friend as wonderful as James.
Techno-Feudalist. Yanis Varoufakis
Forgetting is an essential complement to remembering. Vaclav Smil.
Learning to learn. It is not enough to hear or read. You have to think it through. Broadly. This is data processing. Make and use associations. Create links between knowledge. Then you can retain information. Data processing is how to learn. Learning is about retaining. Retaining knowledge requires thought. Train your brain muscle. Improve your memory. Somewhat ironically - unknown. :material-smile:{ .bounce }
There is nothing to do but take a moment to miss him. Sam Harris on Hitch.
Atheism is clearing the space for better conversations. Science, Art, Culture, Philosophy. Sam Harris.
A pact with the structure of existence. Jordan Peterson.
We excuse ourselves into living mediocre lives. Unknown.
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain this mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all. Michelangelo.
We know close to nothing, about everything. And if we embrace that we will have a better experience going through life. YouTube - From Lex I think. Or Sam Harris Pod.
Nothing is true and everything is possible. Some interview - who?
We should do politics specifically with a view to whats best for hundreds of years time. Nothing else. Politics for the species. Rather than generations. Luke Richardson 2023
Luke's Manifesto
Maintain the status quo of Liberal Democratic Capitalism with a approximate split of 40% GNP to GDP. Spend my term preparing the institutional environment for much grander, but extremely slow burn, generational shifts. Basically do nothing remotely radical or change making. Then pass the work to the next government to implement the changes on which society has been educated, prepared for, and continuously consulted on.
Reach for the lasers. Human Traffic.
A salary is a drug they give you to forget your dreams. Unknown.
All foundational technology gets cheaper and easier to use and ultimately proliferates far and wide. Mustafa Suleyman - DeepMind.
When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him. Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche
Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the persons capacity to act. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow
A man has as many social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares. He generally shows a different side of himself to each of these different groups. William James (derived from the book Quiet)
The stories we tell ourselves. Dan Mcadmams
Where we stumble is where our treasure lies.
Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization. Federico GarcĂa Lorca (1898-1936), Spanish poet and playwright
…people can be perfectly rational and yet perfectly self-interested. Gist
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