Tim Siwula

“I am reminded of the apocryphal conversation between Confucius and Lao-tzu, when the former had been prating of universal love without the element of self. “What stuff!” cried Lao-tzu. “Does not universal love contradict itself? Is not your elimination of self a positive manifestation of self? Sir, if you would cause the world not to lose its source of nourishment: there is the universe, its regularity is unceasing; there are the sun and moon, their brightness is unceasing; there are the stars, their groupings never change; there are the birds and beasts, they flock together without varying; there are trees and shrubs, they grow upward without exception. Like these, accord with the Tao—with the way of”
― Alan W. Watts, Become What You Are

“one of the hallmarks of mental health is the ability to hold conflicting feelings.”
― Jerry Colonna, Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up

“A database is just a tool: how you use it is up to you.”
― Martin Kleppmann, Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

“Night City wasn’t there for its inhabitants, but as a deliberately unsupervised playground for technology itself.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer