“From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.”
― 1984
― 1984
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”
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“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
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“when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.”
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“I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s what we do.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
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