To live is to fall into many pits. As long as you are walking forward, you will fall into a pit. In that case, should we not try to find the best life in our current pit? Rather than accepting it as it is, or escaping it, or lashing out
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“Nous avons créé (surtout nos ancêstres) des systèmes gigantesques et monstreux qui sont devenus indispensables au maintain des conditions de vie de milliards de personnes.”
― Comment tout peut s'effondrer : Petit manuel de collapsologie à l'usage des générations présentes
― Comment tout peut s'effondrer : Petit manuel de collapsologie à l'usage des générations présentes
“Computers had their origin in military cryptography—in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression.”
― You
― You
“You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences: from books, from people, from journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store. But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.”
― If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
“It is at this point in the book that the author famously laments that despite our ability to bring food from the earth, we are incapable of creating a system in which the hungry can be fed.”
― Μιλώντας στην κόρη μου για την οικονομία
― Μιλώντας στην κόρη μου για την οικονομία
“I don't mind worriers," I said. "Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
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