February 2010
“Truth alone will endure; all the rest will be swept away before the tide of...”
– Mohandas Gandhi (via nihilnoetia)
“I think everybody just needs someone to believe in them. Someone to think...”
– (via runawaytrain) (via havealittlefaithinme) (via onherway)
I believe this to be one of the pivotal truths of the world.
“The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be...”
– Carl Sagan (via nihilnoetia)
“Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat… between the law of love and the...”
– Jose Marti (via nihilnoetia)
nihilnoetia:
Human life requires three basic necessities: food, shelter and love. Only when all three are guaranteed can civilization flourish. But civilization is gone now, and he knows not where. He doesn’t know if they reached too high and burned their hands on the stars or if all has yet to begin, and the good lord in heaven created all the wide wild of the world and simply forgot to let...
“As we grow better, we meet better people.”
– Elbert Hubbard (via justagirl) (via resurgam)
“All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and...”
– James Thurber (via nihilnoetia)
“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that...”
– Vaclav Havel (via nihilnoetia)
“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”
– Isaac Asimov (via inspiri) (via nihilnoetia)
AOL Time Warner owns the copyright of “Happy...
ohyeahfacts:
For this reason movies often use different songs (which are not in copyright or are owned by the studio) for birthday scenes. AOL Time Warner earns over $2 million per year from royalties for the song.
(source)
January 2010
Badass of the Week: Nikola Tesla →
“Failure is the opportunity to start over again, more intelligently.”
– Ford
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”
– Bertrand Russell (via nihilnoetia)
“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man...”
– G. I. Gurdjieff (via nihilnoetia)
“No dream is too big, don’t let small minds convince you otherwise.”
– anonymous (via fringesofmind) (via nihilnoetia)
“I think that one may contribute (ever so slightly) to the beauty of things by...”
– Robinson Jeffers (via nihilnoetia)
“If you’re willing to risk some humiliation and pain, you can do some amazing...”
– Conan O’Brien, about “having nothing to lose” when taking on the Late Night show in his Inside the Actors Studio interview.
Also — he was a congressional intern. What?!
(via missbrightside)
“You will never be prepared for the things you are capable of doing. You will...”
– Matt Nowack (via jingc) (via 42th)
PHD Comics: 63% of internet readers will like this... →
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
– J.R.R Tolkien (via nihilnoetia)
“Earth is the only planet not named after a god.”
– (via fuckyeahtheuniverse) (via nihilnoetia)
“Try to have a good day today, wherever you are, whatever you do, whoever is...”
– Margaret Cho (via nihilnoetia)
“I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path...”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti (via nihilnoetia)
“Never vaunt of your gifts to the poor or expect their gratitude, but rather be...”
– Swami Vivekanand (via resolve) (via prospekt)
“There are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines, and the glare that...”
– James Thurber (via nihilnoetia)
“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you...”
– Walt Disney (via bridgettelizabeth) (via nihilnoetia)
“Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There...”
– Jacob M. Braude (via littlemiss)
“What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher In the Rye (via littlefists) (via 42th)
“Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what...”
– Barbara Kingsolver (via kendalllouise) (via thanksforstanding) (via nihilnoetia)
“Just because everything’s changing doesn’t mean it hasn’t been this way before.”
– Regina Spektor (via purpledogs) (via robot-heart)
“It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe...”
– Muhammad Ali (via littlemiss)
Stereotypes: Why We Act Without Thinking (PsyBlog) →
psychotherapy:
Three classic experiments show how stereotypes can influence our behaviour without our knowledge.
“When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference...”
– Audre Lorde
“I thought how terrible it would have been if, as could so easily have happened,...”
– V. S. Naipaul (via nihilnoetia)
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that...”
– Charles Dickens (via aganju)
“I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to...”
– Jack Kerouac (via nihilnoetia)
“To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient...”
– Henri Poincaré (via fringesofmind) (via nihilnoetia)
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
– Carl Sagan (via nihilnoetia)
A tale of two qubits: how quantum computers work →
