Archive - 2008 - Quotes

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I'm A High-Tech Lowlife

"I've been uplinked and downloaded. I've been inputted and outsourced. I know the upside of downsizing; I know the downside of upgrading. I'm a high-tech lowlife. A cutting-edge, state-of-the-art, bicoastal mutlitasker, and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond."

Information - Code

Information only wants to be free. Code just wants to be wrong.

One Man That Has A Mind

"One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."

Progress Depends On The Unreasonable Man

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

From A Religious Conviction

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction."

Best Of All Possible Worlds

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."

Daily Simplification

"Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it."