Knock a man down, and you saw what he was made of. That man might run. If he didn’t—if he stood back up with blood at the corner of his mouth and determination in his eyes—then you knew. That man was about to become truly dangerous.
“She was the most beautiful woman I’ve ever met. And she was pretty to look at too.”
― Golden Son
― Golden Son
“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
“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
“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
“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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