Game Changer Quotes

“be the master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it.’”  “Oliver Wendell Holmes,”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“your brain isn’t about reality as much as it’s about presenting you with the best possible narrative to explain the inputs coming in. Memory is the same way.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“The Israelis are at least a generation ahead of us in nano-electronics.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“Knowledge is the food of the soul.” —Plato”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“Ash hadu an laa ilaaha illallaah he had written: There is no God but Allah wa ash hadu anna Muhammadan rasool-ullaah: And Muhammad is his Messenger. It was the Muslim shahādah, their most profound statement of faith. In some sects the recitation of this phrase was the first of the Five Pillars of Islam and was the only formal step required for non-Muslims to convert into the religion.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other in silence for some time; at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice. ‘Who are you?’ said the Caterpillar. Alice replied rather shyly, ‘I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I knew who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.’” —Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“In a politically correct university culture packed with too many spoiled rich kids complaining of micro-aggressions, parsing every word and statement for any hint it might give offense, no matter how convoluted the logic behind it, desperately needing to separate the world into victimizers and victims. People with so much time on their hands, and so few actual struggles, that the brush of a metaphoric butterfly wing would send them howling in outrage.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“When you have to do an activity consciously, you are slow and inefficient. Unconscious subroutines programmed in are just the opposite, fast and efficient. But in many cases, learned activities that become part of your unconscious wiring can no longer be accessed by your conscious mind.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“Einstein had famously said, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“Wortzman displayed Nietzsche’s words to remind him of the need to cling to his own humanity as tightly as he could, despite the temptations to do otherwise. He turned toward them now, re-reading them as he had done on so many occasions. Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“Mossad was the Hebrew word for Institute, short for HaMossad leModiʿin uleTafkidim Meyuchadim, which translated as the “Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“Computers were once bigger than houses. When this was the case, abuse was virtually nonexistent. A current example is the large hadron collider. We certainly don’t have to worry about one of these being misused, simply because there is only one of these.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“ling chi, which translated either as death by a thousand cuts, the lingering death, or slow slicing.   In ling chi, an executioner would use a knife to methodically remove portions of the body over an extended period of time, eventually resulting in death. According to lore, ling chi began when the torturer, wielding an extremely sharp knife, put out the victim’s eyes, rendering him incapable of seeing the remainder of the torture and ratcheting up the psychological terror of the procedure. Successive cuts removed any small body part that just happened to be sticking out, be it an ear, nose, finger, toe, tongue, or even testicle, followed by the removal of large chunks of flesh from thighs and shoulders. The entire process was said to last three days, and to total three thousand six hundred cuts, after which the butchered carcasses were paraded for the public to see.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“I’m a short, fat Jewish guy,” Shapiro had famously remarked on any number of occasions. “If scores of other short, fat Jewish guys flew planes into buildings, shot up malls, and chanted death to America, I’d expect to get closer scrutiny by the TSA. To fail to notice this pattern and keep a closer eye on me, you’d have to have your head in the sand. But I wouldn’t blame the TSA agents for this scrutiny. I’d blame all the fricking short, fat Jewish guys trying to destroy civilization, who are making me look suspicious. Radicalized Muslims are the least tolerant people on Earth—especially when it comes to women, other religions, and other cultures—yet they cry the loudest at any perceived intolerance on the part of the West. And we’re stupid enough to let them put us on the defensive.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“Truth and reality had come to mean very little when compared to political correctness and political expediency.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“Human beings behaved the way they behaved, decided the way they decided, driven by an amalgam of genes and impulses and evolution and instincts and drives and mysterious unconscious controllers that fooled the conscience into believing it was in charge.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“To be the master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“If I claim that an invisible giant hamster is hovering above me, I’m a lunatic. If I sense the spirit of God hovering above me, I’m simply a spiritual being.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“Since the Mossad agent was using his newly acquired home as a military outpost, it was exactly what Quinn had expected. Barren. Undecorated and unlived in. But with enough televisions, computers, monitors, weapons, and electronics to supply a Walmart.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“In each of us there is another whom we do not know.” —Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“Carmilla Acosta”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“Lucretius said, ‘fear begets gods,’ and he was right.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“Who knew that sex was so much better when the relationship had nothing to do with sex? And”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“It’s been said that history is told by the victors.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“misattributions in remembering are surprisingly common. Sometimes we remember events that never happened, misattributing vivid images that spring to mind to memories of past events that did not occur. At other times we mistakenly take credit for a thought, when in reality we are recalling it—without awareness—from something we read or heard. Misattribution can alter our lives in strange and unexpected ways.” —Professor Daniel L. Schacter, Head of the Schacter Memory Lab at Harvard University, and former chairman of the Harvard Psychology Department”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you. Wortzman”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer

“In each of us there is another whom we do not know.” —Carl Jung,”
― Douglas E. Richards, Game Changer