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“In these days he could never fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few moments at a time.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“CURIOSITY DEMANDS THAT WE ASK QUESTIONS,
THAT WE TRY TO PUT THINGS TOGETHER AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND THIS MULTITUDE OF ASPECTS
AS PERHAPS RESULTING FROM THE ACTION OF A RELATIVELY SMALL NUMBER OF ELEMENTAL
THINGS AND FORCES ACTING IN AN INFINITE VARIETY OF COMBINATIONS”
― Richard P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vols 1-2

“Any reading of the history of science would show that almost all the smart things that have been proven by science appeared like lunacies at the time they were first discovered.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

“The effect of such compression is the reduction in the degree of detected randomness.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

“His idea is that if we were to optimize at every step in life, then it would cost us an infinite amount of time and energy.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

“eloquence. “From the very beginning,” he pronounced, “you began with a lie; what began with a lie was bound to end with a lie; that is a law of nature.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“From the very beginning,” he pronounced, “you began with a lie; what began with a lie was bound to end with a lie; that is a law of nature.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“My father, Theodore Roosevelt, was the best man I ever knew. He combined strength and courage with gentleness, tenderness, and great unselfishness.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

“Sure. For the majority of people, what they love exists only in the imagination. The object of their love is not the man or woman of reality, but what he or she is like in their imagination. The person in reality is just a template used for the creation of this dream lover. Eventually, they find out the differences between their dream lover and the template. If they can get used to those differences, then they can be together. If not, they split up. It’s as simple as that. You differ from the majority in one respect: You didn’t need a template.”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“When you’ve thought of everything you should, and done everything you need to, then let whatever happens happen.”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest