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“Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough”
“Comparison is the thief of joy”
Two of my favorite are from Antoine de Saint-Exupery:
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” (Also attributed as a Native American proverb)
The second one is mesmerizing. Never heard it, or a variation of it before. Thanks!
I’ve always loved the dichotomy between “I think, therefore I am” versus “To be, is to be perceived”. Also, “life is what happens to you while you are making other plans”.
If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
This quote from LBJ centres me. Its been the conservative tactic for literally decades, from African Americans, to lgbtq+, to immigrants; it’s always been the same grift:
- Choose your marginalised group-du-jour.
- Convince a whole lot of stupid people that that group is the cause of all their problems.
- Profit.
Its honestly astonishing how blatant it really is.
And when all wars are done, a butterfly will still be beautiful -Ruskin Bond
Pen is mightier than sword, France is Bacon.
“There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?” - Nahum 3:19
I’m not religious by the way
At a certain level of self-awareness, it will inevitably happen regularly that one finds oneself repulsive.
I forget who said it.
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein.
“If at first you don’t succeed, lower your standards” -Tommy Boy tagline
“I’m too drunk to taste this chicken!” - Col. Sanders
never trust a fart
I’m going to butcher it, but it’s something like: The more you learn the more you realize how little you know.
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.
- Jean-Luc Picard. In Star trek: The Next Generation s2e21
Excellent. I’m also partial to this bit in the Drumhead:
With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
Alan Watts
Read it, and I mean really read it. then think about what it is that you inherited that you defend and why you should continue to defend it.
