Bryan Zero Johnson > Quotes

“Less sleep does not get more done. It just shrinks the value of what’s happening.”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, DON'T DIE: Dialogues

“Actually, it might even do the opposite.” Model Builder: “Our bodies turn anything we eat into the proper food it needs. You can lose weight eating whatever you want as long as you count calories and take a vitamin pill. We all know that.”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, DON'T DIE: Dialogues

“No. Unfortunately you have to come to terms with the idea that life itself is the reward. That is the song we pay”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, DON'T DIE: Dialogues

“Change is hard; being miserable is harder.”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, DON'T DIE: Dialogues

“And we further know that the brain is stitching things together, after the fact, all to make one’s behaviors, wants, motivations, and thoughts appear to be both obvious and carefully considered. But are they?”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, DON'T DIE: Dialogues

“People laughed and it wasn’t just because he was in charge. They had laughed with him before he outranked them. Maybe that’s why he rose so quickly.”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, We the People

“So of course some aspects of ‘optimal’ will include pain or suffering or hardship. We all know that’s how this works.”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, DON'T DIE: Dialogues

“brain is just a bunch of cells degrading together because we’re basically just an overclocked ape.”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, DON'T DIE: Dialogues

“The body is not a calculator. Life is not just the pursuit of quantified records.”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, DON'T DIE: Dialogues

“Do you think morality is scale-dependent, Adams?” said Maddy. “Seems life can turn anyone into a despot with the right recipe of hurt, impotence, ego, and power. Take you and me. Twins. Are we destined toward similarities? Shaped by our shaper?”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, We the People

“11
Brave Old”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, DON'T DIE: Dialogues

“The Earth has to balance its extraordinarily complex biosphere just as our body has to fight to achieve balance in what it lords over. It’s all the same. Systems balancing themselves.”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, DON'T DIE: Dialogues