Everythings an act. Everythings strategy.
Peter Watts, Blindsight.
“What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?”
“If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert”
“After four thousand years we cant even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer.”
“Once there were three tribes. The Optimists, whose patron saints were Drake and Sagan, believed in a universe crawling with gentle intelligencespiritual brethren vaster and more enlightened than we...”
“You cant turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.”
“The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.”
“Before you reprimand or condemn people on a particular act, make sure you have worked on yourself overtime such that you can't be found guilty of such act; if not you will be a victim of your own l...”
“Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.”
“Dont turn your face away. Once youve seen, you can no longer act like you dont know.Open your eyes to the truth. Its all around you.Dont deny what the eyes to your soul have revealed to you.Now tha...”
“When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'.”
“Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.”
“Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.”