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The Apple 3 was kind of like a baby conceived during a group orgy, and later everybody has this bad headache and there's this bastard child, and everyone says, it's not mine.

for free society to function, we must have high-performing, self-governed institutions in every sector, not just in business, but equally in the social sectors.

every situation and every person--no matter how seemingly beyond your reach--becomes an opportunity to succeed.

The processes of self-deception are important in limiting the achievement of individuals.

the creme-de-la-creme opportunities to self-promote are going to come your way when you least expect them.

a child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a creative mind to spot wrong questions.

an invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an invasion of ideas.

If you have life-centered,present-moment awareness, then the imaginary obstacles--which are more than 90% of perceived obstacles--disintegrate and disappear. The remaining 5-10% of perceived obstacles can be transmuted into opportunities through one-pointed intention.

The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

the field of pure potentiality which is purely unmanifest.

Life is the best teacher of all...most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around. Each push is life saying, wake up. There's one thing I want you to learn.

Consciousness is an accidental gift of blind processes...

If we have a broader sense of who we are, then our identities are never threatened.

There is no doubt that a person who has experienced and triumphed over tremendous adversity clearly has strong references from which to build a consistent level of confidence--a belief or faith in themselves and in others, and the capacity to overcome challenges.

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimension.

There is power in the pressure of dissatisfaction, in the tension of temporary discomfort. This is the kind of pain you want in your life, the kind of pain that you immediately transform into positive new actions.

Questions are the lasers of human consciousness

If you are going to make an error in life, err on the side of overestimating your capabilities.

Certainty carries power

[Humanity] is not the creature if circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of [humanity].

The biggest problem posed by our ignorance of nothingness is how to determine when a pattern is absent because it doesn't exist and when it is present but can't be perceived.

...If problems dealing with absence, nonoccurence, or deletion of events and information were incorporated into learning situations more rigorously and regularly, nothingness would become as useful a tool in perception, memory, and problem generation...

Knowledge is fragmenting at ever-increasing speed; understanding becomes even more rare.

Our universe is continually branching into all possible contingencies...

Nowhere near halfway through the book, and its awesomeness is blowing me away!

...game-ification...creates [this] flourishing ecosystem of innovation around a particular problem.