Sign in with Facebook
“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world”
― A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
― A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“It is not daily increase but daily decrease, hack away the unessential. The closer to the source, the less wastage there is.”
―
―
“If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.”
―
―
“The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.”
―
―
“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
―
―
Oliver’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Oliver’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Classics, Ebooks, Graphic novels, History, Manga, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, and Self help
Polls voted on by Oliver
Lists liked by Oliver
