TuesdayOct 22, 2024
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Either war is obsolete or men are.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Love is metaphysical gravity.
Don't fight forces; use them.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I only think of how to solve the problem. But when I am finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
... So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me each one of us is born of two, and we really belong to each other. I vowed to do my own thinking, instead of trying to accommodate everyone else's opinion, credo's and theories. I vowed to apply my inventory of experiences to the solving of problems that affect everyone aboard planet Earth.
Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.
Sometimes I think were alone. Sometimes I think were not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which make books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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