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“A boat in the harbor is a safe boat. But that’s not what boats are made for.”
But a man can’t swim in the same river twice, because it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
I was approaching my intersection. I’m a very decisive guy, but sometimes there are no good choices, and even the less bad choice has unintended consequences—like
To quote Georges Braque, as I used to do in my class, “Truth exists; only lies are invented.”
It’s easy to recognize bullshit, but not as easy to understand it.
When you hear hoofbeats… something is coming at you.
once you’re aware that things are not as they seem—that there may be an alternate universe—you are prepped to interpret new information in a different way. And there is a lot of dark matter in that universe. You can’t see it, but you can infer it.
You should stop chasing the bus when you’ve caught it,
if you abort every plan that’s not perfect, you’ll spend your life and your career waiting for perfect, which will never come.
But there’s always the alligator factor. Sometimes the primitive tiny-brained reptile wins. You gotta watch that.
He seemed frustrated—the way stupid people get who think they’re talking to a stupid person.
you’re not supposed to confront delusional people with the truth,
