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I quit
I am tired of this deluge of data, filling my brain with noise and useless information that cannot be acted upon, turning me into a walking storage device rather than a creative thinker ( Read more... ) -
If I Were God
Rule #1: So long as you are living this day to the fullest, it will not end
If only life were fair... -
If I had it to do over again...
...I would have
1. slept less
2. written more
3. spent less time online
4. replaced all talk of non-accomplishment with acts of accomplishment
5. spent more time on my own ideas and even less(!) reading those of others ( Read more... ) -
Art, Beauty, Fragility
Article here. Simply beautiful: (Said of a graffiti artist --)
He uses images of butterflies, because they live for only a week, to depict the fragility of life. "These butterflies shed their colour before they die," he says, mournfully. -
Meme
Stolen from cacophonesque:
Leave me an anonymous comment pouring your heart out. Say anything. Tell me your stories, your secrets, those things no one ever asks but you wish to tell. Tell me about your love, your hate, your indifference, your joy. Tell me about what's inside of you when you're reading through these entries on your friends list, ( Read more... ) -
Schopenhauer on Value
"Yet nothing has true value except what one has thought at first solely for oneself. For one can divide thinkers into those who think at first for themselves and those who immediately think for others. The former are the genuine ones, self-thinkers in both senses of that term; they are the real philosophers. For they alone are serious about what is ( Read more... ) -
Camus Quote
"It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting."
--Albert Camus
Precisely! -
Linus Torvalds
"Sometimes the crazy people have some of the most interesting problems."
--Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux
http://tinyurl.com/2bz5y6 -
Omnipotent? Not quite...
God is omni-impotent. -
A Critique of Strict Analytics
"Enough of your petty talk of 'how to live'! Give me logic, mathematics -- notation I can sink my teeth into! Fill me full of narrow 'truths' that follow from my baseless beliefs (but We The Learned call them 'premises'). Continental is for filthy mortals -- make me a machine, the most powerful calculator of all! Teach me more and more about ( Read more... )