“Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.”
― Nikola Tesla: 100 Quotes on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Success
― Nikola Tesla: 100 Quotes on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Success
“Put 'em on and be yourself, mister alienated loner steppenwolf bemused distant meta-izing technocrat rationalist fucking shithead.”
― The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
― The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
“It's a wonderful thing to be clever, and you should never think otherwise, and you should never stop being that way. But what you learn, as you get older, is that there are a few billion other people in the world all trying to be clever at the same time, and whatever you do with your life will certainly be lost—swallowed up in the ocean—unless you are doing it along with like-minded people who will remember your contributions and carry them forward.”
― The Diamond Age
― The Diamond Age
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
― The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
― The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
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