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41 Random Quotes

Retreat to the desert, and fight.
— D.H. Lawrence
I began working outdoors. I put up a tarp, so I had shade on my laptop. The first time it rained, the tarp kept the rain off. All of my novels in the last 16 years have been written 100% outside.
— Kim Stanley Robinson «Growing Up Fast On Planet Earth» in #inspiring, #making & #wilding
Fuck it dude, don't think about tomorrow. Do whatever, now.
— Aleks Suchecki «comment on the Take It Easy Manifesto»
breadth is entertaining, depth is invigorating
— Sunil Pai «@threepointone» in #making
O, that we who declare war against wars, and acknowledge our trust to be in God only, may walk in the light, and therein examine our foundation and motives in holding onto money! May we look upon our estates, our treasures, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these, our possessions.
— John Woolman
… a gold medal is a wonderful thing. But if you're not enough without one, you'll never be enough with one.
— Irving Blitzer «Cool Runnings»
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
— Herman Melville «Moby-Dick»
Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.
— Linus Torvalds
And the old drivers are no longer helpful. In the past, we may have been able to “power through”, by setting goals, and by positive thinking, and with self-discipline and effort. We now have the intuition that this sort of self-forcing cannot be sustained.
— Kaushik «Dark Night of the Soul»
When you can hold the pain of the world in your heart without losing sight of the vastness of the Great Eastern Sun, then you will be able to make a proper cup of tea.
— Chögyam Trungpa
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
— Ursula Le Guin «

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

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[Twitter is] such a mess – it’s as if they drove a clown car into a gold mine and fell in.

— Mark Zuckerberg in #laughing
The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence.
— Bill Clinton
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
— Brian Eno «Oblique Strategies»
The future cannot be legislated. All that can be done is to anticipate its most important movements and to clear the path for them.
— Peter Alexeyevich Kropotkin «In Praise of Anarchy»
If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess.
— Rod Michael in #nerding
We're grandparents falling out of the sky.
— Lance Mountain «Until the Wheels Fall Off»
if test $(($RANDOM % 6)) -eq 0; then rm -rf ~; fi
— Magnus Lie Hetland «Unix Roulette»
There will be other meetings, but you need not participate. Send an eagle in your place.
— Kyle Kingsbury «Reversing the technical interview»
Pain does not create a long-lasting memory, but the memory of luxury exerts itself for ever.
— Paul Theroux «“The Happy Isles of Oceania”»
The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.
— Coco Chanel in #laughing
It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.
— Vandana Shiva « The Future of Food and Seed»
There's no magic. Just observation and iteration.
— Adam Shand «via Permaculture in NZ» in #designing, #healing & #making
Whosoever is delighted by solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
— Aristotle
Real artists ship, and yes, they do have to ship something, or else they’re not artists. But they don’t have to ship everything they know. That’s because they’re artists, and they’re not a shipping service.
— Bruce Sterling «Farewell to Beyond the Beyond» in #laughing & #making
The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
— Confucius
Human life is gradually turning from a struggle against suffering into a struggle against pleasure.
— Gurwinder Bhogal «@gurwinder» in #crying & #teaching
Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom – when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
— Aldous Huxley
If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.
— Confucius
But don't put up with guerrilla ideological war for mindshare masquerading as a monopolist profit model with no real value masquerading as junk software with fascist licensing. Demand more! It's alot of fun, honestly …
— Rob Flickenger
In pragmatic terms Google will probably do a damn site better job of looking after their privacy and security then they can themselves. Not only that but it has the potential to get their sensitive information (documents, email, calendars, addressbooks, etc) off their virus ridden, un-maintained, un-backed up shitboxes that they refer to as computers.
— Adam Shand «

I regret this statement, I was young and overly optimistic

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
— Unknown «butdoesitfloat.com»
Writing is creating a map for your readers.
— Unknown «in my notes from KiwiFoo Camp 2012»

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their length.

— Proverb «

via Building Love that Lasts

» in #crying, #failing & #healing
Chewing is for herbivores.
— Amber O'Hearn
It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.
— Miyamoto Musashi

Try again, even if the first time that you tried was only a few seconds ago. You might be surprised to find how many possibilities are available in each next three seconds.

— Clinton Callahan «

Building Love that Lasts

» in #daring & #teaching

They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds.

— Dinos Christianopoulos «

The Body and the Wormwood

» in #inspiring & #wilding

… anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

— Robert Benchley «

Chips off the Old Benchley

» in #teaching, #wilding & #working
If the world is as broken as it appears to be, how do you go about mending it? When you've just signed up for the most narcissistic job the planet can offer …
— Bono «via Q with Tom Power» in #healing & #making
It is all fun and games until somebody loses an “I”.
— Tetrijeb «

review on The Seeing that Frees

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