41 Random Quotes

It's perversely a privilege to be here at this moment, at this time, with the knowledge of what's happening. It makes it very clear what our job is, what our roles are and where our heart belongs.

— Paul Hawken «A Regenerative World»

I was bred for war darling
be it love
or chaos
everything I do
is to the death.

— Dave Wise

Chewing is for herbivores.

— Amber O'Hearn

Fuck it dude, don't think about tomorrow. Do whatever, now.

— Aleks Suchecki «comment on the Take It Easy Manifesto»

Perfect is the enemy of done.

— Joe Abley «Managing IP Networks with Free Software»

There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the lock of history be stopped, or turned back, for their private benefit.

— Life-Line

Chindogu are offerings to the rest of the world. They are not therefore ideas to be copyrighted, patented, collected and owned. As they say in Spain, 'mi Chindogu es tu Chindogu.

— Kenji Kawakami «The Nineth Tenant of Chindogu»

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

— Thomas Jefferson «1787»

It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.

— David Holmgren

Nuance is the dead opposite of propaganda: it’s the essence of critical thinking.

— Steve Upstil «Either You’re For Nuance or Against It
» in #reflecting & #teaching

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

— Carl Sagan in #making & #teaching

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

— William Blake

His face looked worn from a lifelong battle with optimism.

— Dan Barber «The Third Plate»

I know I used to be crazy
I know I used to be fun
You say I used to be wild
I say I used to be young

— Miley Cyrus «Used to be Young
» in #reflecting

A wounded bear on your head is not a matter for levity.

— Mike Oehler «“The $50 and Up Underground House Book”»

I'm a raging alcoholic who sells booze for a living, but it works for me, I love the opposites in my life.

— Harry Denton «nytimes.org (on being sober in the hospitality industry)»

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

— Galileo Galilei

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.

— Ursula Le Guin in #daring, #making & #teaching

I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

— Vincent van Gogh

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.

— Lawrence Lessig

Love needs no protection; it is its own protection.

— Emma Goldman

The intuituive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

— Albert Einstein

Visions become responsible through all sort of processes. The best one I know is sharing it with other people who bring in their knowledge, their points of view, and their visions. The more a vision is shared, the more responsible it gets, and also the more ethical.

— Donella Meadows «Making Permaculture Stronger»

Boardwatch Internal Guideline #17: When you have a bear that is already struggling with a toothache — avoid poking it in the eye with a stick

— Jack Rickard «inet-access»

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

— Tacitus «Annals, Book III, 27
»

I’m willing to fall on my ass in front of people. The embarrassment of screwing up and being clumsy and falling on my ass in front of people is not great enough to keep me from doing it. And that’s the trick to being a good student.

— Scott Glenn «via Tim Ferris
» in #daring, #failing & #teaching

Kids aren't wired to see tragedy. They're wired to see possibility.

— Beth Berry «What if we all quit judging this scene as sad?»

The opposite of war isn't peace … it's creation.

— Jonathan Larson in #healing, #making & #teaching

All healthy bodies are alike; each unhealthy body is unhealthy in its own way.

— Daniel Lieberman «The Story of the Human Body
» in #healing

Myth is a wild way of telling the truth.

— Martin Shaw

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.

— John Ruskin «maybe
» in #crying, #failing & #laughing

Courage is to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart

— Brene Brown «“The Power of Vulnerability”»

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

— Carl Jung «speaking to the Society for Psychical Research in England, 1919
» in #daring, #imagining & #teaching

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

— Vladimir Lenin

I never really understood the word “loneliness”. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean and with nature.

— Björk

Pain is first and foremost motivational. Thus, the opposite of pain is desire, not pleasure.

— Alexey Guzey «@alexeyguzey» in #healing

We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if only words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

— John Locke

Rules are for fools.

— Paul Petzl «Marc Randolph on Building Netflix»

Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs through it.

— Norman Maclean «A River Runs Through It»

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

— Terry Pratchett in #laughing & #reflecting