In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers" Pynchon
if a prediction can lead to changes in the system that the prediction is made in relation to, it becomes difficult to assess the predictions with the events that actually occur.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
-Mary Kay Ash
"Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
I can see it now, all crystallizing in the moment of activation, and what if the programmer is the reason for all the evil and misfortune and injustice in the world; what if every single unfortunate event that's ever occurred is caused by the butterfly flap of that man trying to prevent it all, and the entire concept of evil and finity and a difficult world is all a big cruel self-fulfilling prophecy, and it's all my fault; a big joke, and I'm the punchline?
For once, O awaited Reality, reveal Yourself in a form material,
For a thousand prostrations are quivering eagerly in my submissive brow.
The following statement is false.
The preceding statement is true.
This third statement is a fart joke.
The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
-Ivan Illich
You know that opinions are like asses (everyone has one), what happens is that you can't get a good one by means of surgery.
just because i'm willing to die for you doesn't mean that I'm willing to die because of you.
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then what is the definition of practice?
if the average woman wold rather have beauty than brains, it's because the average man can see better than he can think. - gregory benford
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