The relationships we have with the world are largely determined by the relationships we have with ourselves
— Greg Anderson
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Posts tagged with “quote”
Posted 4 days ago
To arrive at the simplest truth, as [Sir Isaac] Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know. And yet those with the courage to tread this path to real discovery are not only offered practically no guidance on how to do so, they are actively discouraged and have to set about it in secret, pretending meanwhile to be diligently engaged in the frantic diversions and to conform with the deadening personal opinions which are being continually thrust upon them.
— George Spencer-Brown (via visualturn) (via simloovoo)
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Posted 1 week ago
If we just end up building the things I can imagine then we will have failed
— Tim Berners Lee on building a platform for future innovation, a platform unlimited by what we can imagine right now [via Web 3.0] (via michaelrose)
via michaelrose
Posted 2 weeks ago
My brain’s a film, I’m made of timed exposures,
And pouding in my ears and eyes with waves of light-
These animate flakes, these pictures I call sight.
- anne stevenson
Posted 2 weeks ago
You watch television to turn your brain off and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on.
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Posted 1 month ago
In the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
— Bertrand Russel (Dunning-Kruger effect)
via readmorewikipedia
Posted 2 months ago
Winston Churchill once defined a pessimist as one who sees the difficulty in every opportunity, but an optimist as one who sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
— Brain Blogger (via willw2)
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Posted 2 months ago
It shall be the duty of every citizen of India to protect and improve the natural environment including forests, lakes, rivers and wildlife, and to have compassion for living creatures.
— CONSTITUTION OF INDIA (Section 51a Fundamental Duties)
Posted 2 months ago
Linus’ Law: given enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow
— Eric S. Raymond
Posted 2 months ago
Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. Those of us who are not so tall have to choose!
via simloovoo
Posted 3 months ago
If you have a mad Idea and some mad conviction to back it, you can bunch up with some mad folks and probably make the world go mad about it.
— Rawjeev
Posted 3 months ago
Maybe an unearned income in the plant world, as elsewhere, can lead to profligacy and extravagance on a truly monumental scale.
— David Attenborough on Rafflesia
Roughly speaking, you can put me in the league of Pashupati & Pan. Otherwise I am a button-pusher (who is often wood-sick).
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