I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.
Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.
Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. . . . Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.
Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.
Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.
If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!
How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?
History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.