But if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads chopped off in a battle shall join together at the latter day, and cry all, ‘We died at such a place’ — some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left.

Shakespeare, Henry V

Einstein’s desk, taken the day he died by Life magazine

Einstein’s desk, taken the day he died by Life magazine

Change your company. If that fails, change companies.

All the fathers burying their sons in the cemetaries

Share the same sentiments

Their grey beards and tweed hats dance left and right in the cool, damp breeze

The uniforms of their sons lay folded in the closet

Their academy shoes stand scuffed and polished in the old bins

Hadn’t been long enough to get rid of them yet

For some reason, it had been different

When they were boys themselves

Their fathers had raised them cruelly

But they grew upright and lived hearty lives

Even the ones who had rifles placed in their hands risked lost appendages at most

Or so it had seemed, wandering through the tilted headstones

Does good have meaning without bad? Life without death?

I like you when you dig what I dig.

Someone special

The Maker must always avoid the Sin of Daedalus

But often he will be too eager to notice

A word to the wise is sufficient

Why do kids who can’t master high school end up as some of the most powerful people in the world?

Paul Graham on Hackers

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

Noam Chomsky

Bruce Lee on limits

Bruce Lee on limits

So exhausted that I can’t sleep

And yet, he was but a man!

And yet, he was but a man!