Lines worth keeping

“Make sure you have a lot of balance in life. Or don’t.

“Don’t think about your life fully as its integral, but rather the derivative of the present.

“Here’s the thing people forget because you never hear the reality in the media. Those rare aha moments, big successes, and once-in-a-lifetime ideas don’t come to random people at random times. They come to the hardest working people at just the right times.

“I don’t mind if you are making fun of me for the “embarrassing” things I am doing. I’m just glad to hear your voice and have you paying some attention to me any chance I get.

“No Title. Too many concepts.

“I don’t want to forget how to remember how to get meta in to help others remember how to think.

“What comes first: 1) triumphantly and impressively evolving into a master of deriving solutions, or 2) sadly and ignorantly forgetting how to properly study, remember, and simply repeat (or avoid repeating) history?

“Each time I am missing is a time when I am present.

“Often times, the value of new technology isn’t just inventing something new, but importantly, illuminating previous innovations even more clearly.

“It’s important in life to figure out when you need to take deep breaths and when you need short ones, as well as the subset of that which is the various depths (lengths and speeds) of inhales and exhales.

“A solution’s elegance is innate. Its simplicity is in the eye of the beholder. This is akin to a nature vs nurture debate, both of which have a mysterious influence on the life of the solution.

“As our problems become overwhelmingly complex, we must be prepared to devise and accept underwhelmingly simple solutions.

“It is not their job to listen. It is your job to capture their full attention.

“Truth in the Middle: Right vs Happy

“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.

“Someone cannot fool you without actually trying to fool you. Those times are just yet another scenario where you are fooling yourself.

“I’m not racist. I don’t see titles.

“I don’t read a lot because I like reading. I read a lot because I like winning.

“Good and wrong vs bad and right. It can be argued that everything is one of those. But truth is neither. Moreover none of those four words exist in the realm of truth. Truth is nestled directly between them, typically hidden out of sight, and whose existence requires a level of faith resembling that of a belief in the supernatural, the same level of faith required in unconditionally believing in those you care about most. In fact, it is this faith and belief that impacts truth itself, its existence, its profoundness, and its power.

“Emotions depicted on canvas would have no edges. Same with right and wrong. It is easier on the eyes to have edges. Edges on canvas are nice, manmade comforts not found naturally.

“Okay, say we’re all just characters in a video game or some computer generated world like some say is statistically more likely than not. Don’t you still want to win, be happy, be good, try to connect with the video game creator, search for and find your purpose in your own terms, and make the computer world a better place for all other characters past, present, and future?

“I have belief. Belief that God and my ancestors have made — and continue to make — humanity good enough, kind enough, curious enough, and resourceful enough to see the extraordinary good and value in me. I have no expectations on the degree of the visible manifestation of showing this to me (or anyone) nor any expectation of the timeline at which this will be seen.

“History is one of the best, if not the best, starting points for solving any problem. I can’t even count how many — supposedly — difficult problems I have solved by simply finding patterns and the anomalies in those patterns. Identifying these quickly comes from experience but recognizing the immense value of history is simply a decision.

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.

“If you want to work smarter, start by working harder. Your brain and body figure out how to work smarter by themselves the harder you work.

“Many people can hit a winner when the ball is hit right to them. Fewer people consistently put themselves in a good position to hit a winner regardless of where the ball is hit.

“Build vs. buy arguments are often confused with build vs. buy-and-then-use-the-wrong-or-unintended-way.

“Work hard, but expect results as if you don’t. You won’t be disappointed. Do the opposite and you will be.

“Ceasing physical growth is probably one of the best, if not the best, things about getting older.

“There’s only one habit of happy, successful people. And that is that they have at least one healthy habit/addiction that they truly internalize and believe in consistently.

“Math never fails us, but people who apply it do.

“There is no such thing as capturing a beautiful object. There is only capturing a beautiful illumination.

“Consider that people, especially children, tend to need exactly what it is they are not getting enough of, regardless of — and often in direct conflict with — what you think they deserve whether that be attention, praise, criticism, a hug, or otherwise.

“Love is a form of desire and commitment and goodness that does not require the feeling of hard work from the beholder. In fact, it is precisely love that makes being apathetic, uncommitted, and evil extremely difficult.

“Commitment is not an action(s), but a conscious decision that is made long before it is ever tested.

“About that question I just asked you…it, and its answer were both for you to contemplate, not just me.

“If at first you don’t succeed, don’t forget to change something before you try again.

“If you aren’t consciously proactive, you will find you have no choice but to be reactive.

“Pretty much nothing in life happens to you without you letting it. That includes the good.

“All good is hard. All evil is easy.

“In one generation, we have gone from a society that was desperately learning how to turn on electronic devices to one that is now even more desperately learning how to turn them off.

“Life is a grindstone; whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you’re made of.

“If you don’t have anything nice to say, drawl it.

“Your virtual social interaction can kill my real social interaction.

“I have found there is a whole lot more “oops” going on in the world than evil. Equip yourself to fight your own “oops” and the “oops” of others.

“Discipline is doing what you promise yourself you will do. Responsibility is doing what you promise others you will do.

“Enjoy the middle, but cherish the edge. Our greatest moments are found on edges.

“One of our country’s greatest charms is the notion that achieving success is worth everything we have. Perhaps our greatest risk is accepting a culture of spending more than that to achieve it.

“Facebook always asks me what’s on my mind, Twitter always asks me what’s happening. But only my family can look at me each day and know exactly when to ask me how I’m feeling.

“All smooth rocks were once rough around the edges.

“Indeed, tragic is he who can never have enough. But worse is he who knows he has enough, yet he cannot bear helping.

“I don’t judge the nature of the problem or solution as much as I do the depth of their respective complexity and simplicity.

“Observation alters reality.

“As you go higher, the wind gets stronger.

“Constrain for the sake of constraint.

“When your troops are continuously being shot at and injured, you have two choices: fight like crazy or get them all out.

“The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

“The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

“If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

“I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.

“Your experiences are only as good as your memory.

“If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; But if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.

“In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.

“You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

“Vegetarian – Ancient tribal slang for the village idiot who can’t hunt, fish, or ride.

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

“Of all the parts of your body that can cause the most pain to others and yourself, your tongue is way ahead of the rest.

“If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all.

“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

“Almost always, the person who complains that the current leader is unfit to lead doesn’t realize he will say the same for anyone who is leading.

“Statistics say that one person in every family is considered a fool by their family members. Think about your family…if you don’t consider one of them fools…

“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

“We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

“A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.

“The naive both forgive and forget; the stupid neither forgive nor forget; the angered forget but do not forgive; the wise forgive but do not forget.

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.

“When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

“These days an income is something you can’t live without–or within.

“Computers aren’t nice enough to just replace man altogether. They are slowly and systematically taking over all the parts of his life.

“Computers may not replace man, but they will induce laziness enough to cripple him.

“My mind is my own church.

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

“When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

“You help me and vica versa.

“Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

“To win, it takes a little more than a good game.

“All good people have the same religion…it’s the bad ones who don’t.

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.

“I’m not even asking you to fight for the person who has a different view, a different background, and/or is just plain different. I’m just asking that you not fight against them.

“Of course the game is rigged. Don’t let that stop you–if you don’t play, you can’t win.

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

“Wait. Just so we can eliminate one of the variables. When it is working, it works. Right?

“Okay, I don’t know what I’m asking, but what is your answer?

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

“The best armor is to keep out of range.

“It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

“If you scatter thorns, don’t go barefoot.

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

“To err is human–and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

“Failing to plan is planning to fail.

“It is very easy to be happy, but very difficult to be peaceful.

“If it is not necessary to be angry, it is necessary to not be angry.

“Follow your heart, not your imagination.

“Humans, innately, love a binary world.