The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you will never have. - Soren Kierkegaard
One must imagine Sisyphus happy. "I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
With a close friend, you can laugh about the same story over and over again
True friends don't need to fill the silence with small talk; they are comfortable in each other's presence
Rare as is true love, true friendships are rarer.
I don't respect therapy. Because I'm a scientist. Because I invent, transform, create and destroy for a living and when I don't like something about the world I change it and I don't think going into a rented office in a strip mall to listen to some agent of averageness explain which words mean which feelings is ever helped anyone to do anything. I think it helped a lot of people to get comfortable and stop panicking, which is a state of mind we value in animals we eat, but not something I want for myself.
The meaning of life is to keep yourself busy with unnecessary shit until you are dead forever.
“Are we alone in the universe?” — “Yes, you are all alone.” — “There are no others out there, among the stars?” — “There are others. They are all alone, too”
The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, its purpose.
Australia: where you call your mates 'cunt' and you call cunts 'mate'.
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. - B.F.Skinner (1969)
Democracy basically means: Government by the people, of the people, for the people.... but the people are retarded. -Osho
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. ― Frederick P. Brooks
