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“Ideas come and go, stories stay.”
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“I need to ask myself, 'What would an Apollo astronaut do?' He'd drink three whiskey sours, drive his Corvette to the launchpad, then fly to the moon in a command module smaller than my Rover. Man those guys were cool.”
― The Martian
― The Martian
“The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“to be honorable implies not fearing the appearance and consequences of being outlandish.”
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
Mike’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Mike’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
996 books
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111 friends
292 books
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56 friends
83,663 books
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105 friends
3,544 books
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1 book
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156 books
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99 friends
331 books
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268 books
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142 friends
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