You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones.
“We all built up a lot of bad habits when everything was easy. We forgot how to survive when easy stops.”
― Commune: Book One
― Commune: Book One
“To put it another way: if you don’t eat fat, you’re probably fat.”
― Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex
― Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex
“In an industry where usage is a function of purchase rather than a real desire for the item, technology providers will obviously optimize for the purchasing process. But in reality, that is no longer true today, and hasn’t been true for years. As with IM or the iPhone, technology is increasingly being driven by bottom-up, rather than top-down, adoption. The world has changed, but only a select few in the technology industry have realized it. As William Gibson might put it, the future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.”
― The New Kingmakers: How Developers Conquered the World
― The New Kingmakers: How Developers Conquered the World
“I am old now, or at least, I am no longer young, and everything I see reminds me of something else I’ve seen, such that I see nothing for the first time.”
― Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
― Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
“If a bomb’s coming at you, it’s coming at you. You can’t go around worrying about it. Just go on doing what you love, and go on enjoying your life.”
― Beneath a Scarlet Sky
― Beneath a Scarlet Sky
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