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Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Reason for being
The world will try and tell you who you are, and you have to tell yourself who you are. There's this ongoing battle, and somehow there needs to be a reconciliation between the two.
Hare & tortoise.
Done is better than perfect.
More moves and less chat.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Hours vs. Iterations
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Everyone, Someone.
Truth.
It's all relative.
Switching costs.
Numbers obscure nuance.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
You are what you think you are.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Creativity before productivity.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
No one is coming to save you.
Shoot.
Generalist, specialist.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Most people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is, with the world as they think about it, and talk about it, and describe it.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Realize.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Failure = feedback.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Map ≠ Territory
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Distraction, focus.
Well done is better than well said.
The first step is the steepest.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Experience is up only.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Learning.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
The fool is always getting ready to live.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Truth, Perception
You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Alan Watts
No, it took me my whole life.
