An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy.
“It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil — he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.”
He continued, “The other is good — he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you — and inside every other person, too.”
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”
The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”
Surveillance is the license given to the people who are on the top of that, to control our lives. They will commit crimes. They will commit the worst of crimes. What I call mega crimes...a mega crime is one where you foreclose on a million home owners and don't go to jail. We are doing surveillance and analytics to capture a petty drug dealer who is selling pot for Bitcoin. Who is doing surveillance and analytics on Lockheed Martin? Who is doing surveillance and analytics on the money laundering banks? Nobody. Do you know why? None of them ever go to jail. The regulators are completely captured. And the very system of controlling finance from above by having leavers of power of the lives of millions people...of having the audacity to cut off entire countries. And say, they are under sactions. They're not priveledge enough. They're not people enough to gain financial services. Guess who that attracts? If you build levers of power like that. The very worst sociopaths in our society are attracted like flies to shit to grab hold of those levers of power and destroy all of your freedoms as quickly as they can. We are building societies in which one bad election is the last election. And if you don't believe me, look at what happened in....
Life is a message scribbled in the dark.
Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
Prison Notebooks
All men by nature desire to know.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is between poverty and wealth. Wherever the rulers, whether they be a minority or a majority, owe their power to wealth, that is an oligarchy. Wherever the poor rule, that is a democracy.
Disaster is my muse.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
It will be seen that we are not fully equipped by our senses for forming an impersonal picture of the world. And it is because the deficiency is manifest that we do not hesitate to advocate a conception of the world which transcends the images familiar to the senses. Such a world can perhaps be grasped, but not pictured by the brain. It would be unreasonable to limit our thought of nature to what can be comprised in sense-pictures. As Lodge has said, our senses were developed by the struggle for existence, not for the purpose of philosophising on the world.
(Space, Time and Gravitation)
The lesson seems almost Zen: you live longer only when you stop trying to live longer.
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.”
I sweat, you perspire, but she glows
he doxes, she leaks, but the New York Times investigates
What china did to red America the internet is doing to blue America.
But what keeps you going is the fact that you're doing your best, that you -- you are re--- you have put together a team of people that could not be working harder or be smarter or more effective and what you also know is is that, at the end of the day, our democracy works because it's not reliant just on one person, but it's a -- it's a process of self-government where we're all involved in making things a little bit better.
Chapter 8 of "The Intelligent Investor" emphasizes the importance of remaining calm and rational during market fluctuations, while Chapter 20 introduces the concept of "Margin of Safety". Chapter 8 teaches investors to ignore daily market jitters and focus on the intrinsic value of their investments, avoiding impulsive decisions based on fear or greed. Chapter 20 highlights the principle of purchasing stocks at a price significantly below their estimated intrinsic value, creating a buffer against market downturns and miscalculations.
Well done is better than well said.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
You have to give someone the chance to cheat in order to learn to trust them.
People overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in 10 years.
I think we can all look forward to the time when these three theories are given equal time in our science classrooms across the country, and eventually the world; one third time for Intelligent Design, one third time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, and one third time for logical conjecture based on overwhelming observable evidence.
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
“What is the biggest mistake we make in life?” the Buddha replied, “The biggest mistake is you think you have time.” Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. And once it’s lost you can never get it back.
A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice, I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?
(The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution)
