"If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will."
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"Have you noticed that the people shouting loudest to make developing oil fields impossible, to tax gasoline to astronomical levels, and to have government subsidized "Manhattan Projects" to create the breakthroughs in solar, wind, waves, bio-mass, etc., are the same people who did not take the math, science and engineering courses in college? Despite their profound ignorance in these subjects, they are sure that creating enough pain will cause those of us who did grind away in these fields for all these years to suddenly have that amazing insight which will let us repeal the third law of thermodynamics. Their core belief is that genius comes forth when misery is piled sufficiently high."
-Bruce Anderson

False Consensus Effect

"It's called the false consensus effect, and what it means is that you've been cloistering yourself without realizing it. Labor too long and too hard at chasing the next Hot New Trend, intermingle with a bit too much energy and dedication with your own Circle Of Trust, and gradually alienate yourself from whoever might be outside that crowd; pretty soon, you'll become an expert on what everybody thinks, and you'll be chronically wrong."
-House of Eratosthenes

Effective Cursing

"There's a great power in knowing the bad words, but not using them. Using cheap words all the time just devalues everything that dribbles out of your cuss-hole; reserving a potent epithet for the right moment, then unleashing it like a Hellfire missile has a notable effect."
-James Lileks

Collinsworth: Where does the patriotism come from inside of you? Historically, what is it?
Kobe: Well, you know it’s just our country, it’s... we believe is the greatest country in the world. It has given us so many great opportunities, and it’s just a sense of pride that you have; that you say "You know what? Our country is the best!"
Collinsworth: Is that a ‘cool’ thing to say, in this day and age? That you love your country, and that you’re fighting for the red, white and blue? It seems sort of like a day gone by(?)
Kobe: No, it’s a cool thing for me to say. I feel great about it, and I’m not ashamed to say it. I mean, this is a tremendous honor.
-from Chris Collinsworth interview with Kobe Bryant of U.S.A. Olympic men's basketball team

"In this country if you work, nothing's impossible."
-Roberto Alveres (on taking U.S. citizen oath - he escaped from Cuba after spending six years as a political prisoner)

"He was often wrong, but never in doubt".
-from an obituary published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on 7/9/2006

"So there is no question that the fact of death is precisely what confers meaning on our lives. In fact, a moment's reflection will inform you that you couldn't even know you were alive in the absence of death, any more than you could have bodily existence in the absence of spatial boundaries. In other words, our bodies bind and define us in space, while our death binds and defines us in time."
-Robert Godwin

"Reality is just a point of view."
-P.K.Dick

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
-Buckminster Fuller

"Problems cannot be solved by the same minds that created them."
-attributed to Albert Einstein

"Experience is the thing you have left when everything else is gone."
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