“The future is inside us. It’s not somewhere else… We call upon the people. Only people have this power. The numbers don’t decide. Your system is a lie. A river running dry. The wings of a butterfly. And you may pour us away like soup. Like we’re pretty broken flowers. We’ll take back what is ours. One day at a time.”
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“Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be… defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”
— Ronald Reagan
“Do not try and bend the spoon, that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth… There is no spoon. Then you’ll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.”
— The Matrix
To all the guys out there, here’s my life hack. Surround yourself with smart women and listen to them and you’ll do just fine.
— Tim Walz
Co-signed. This has worked for me my entire life.
Let me tell you something. I love this guy… You can tell those flannel shirts he wears don’t come from some political consultant, they come from his closet, and they have been through some stuff.
— Barrak Obama on Tim Walz
Like I’ve said, Tim Walz is Folksy.
“Don’t ever shy away from our progressive values. One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”
— Tim Walz
Like I said, “Folksy”.
Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority’s message today. Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done. The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.
Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.
— Justice Sonia Sotomayor writing in dissent of today’s Supreme Court ruling on Presidential Immunity
You have a specific responsibility to existence, to God if you like, to taste, touch and smell what there is to experience. You have to do everything. If given the option between doing something and not doing it, you have to do it, because you’ve already done the “not do it” part.
— Sam Sheridan – A Fighter’s Heart
Steve Jobs in 1983 Envisions Today
When I was going to school, I had a few great teachers and a lot of mediocre teachers. And the thing that probably kept me out of jail was the books. I could go and read what Aristotle or Plato wrote without an intermediary in the way. And a book was a phenomenal thing. It got right from the source to the destination without anything in the middle.
The problem was, you can’t ask Aristotle a question. And I think, as we look towards the next fifty to one hundred years, if we really can come up with these machines that can capture an underlying spirit, or an underlying set of principles, or an underlying way of looking at the world, then, when the next Aristotle comes around, maybe if he carries around one of these machines with him his whole life–his or her whole life–and types in all this stuff, then maybe someday, after this person’s dead and gone, we can ask this machine, “Hey, what would Aristotle have said? What about this?” And maybe we won’t get the right answer, but maybe we will. And that’s really exciting to me. And that’s one of the reasons I’m doing what I’m doing.
From a speech at the International Design Conference in Aspen. In hindsight, one can find not only what is now available in ChatGPT but also the iPhone in this vision.
“Caesar: “The ides of March are come.”
Soothsayer: “Ay, Caesar; but not gone.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar