One of the most common causes of failure is giving up before results become visible.
And yet when results become visible, they come so fast and in such magnitude that you wonder where they’ve been hiding all these years.
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“Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.”
“Don’t confuse your path with your destination. Just because it’s stormy now doesn’t mean you aren’t headed for sunshine.”
“When you lose a person, a whole universe goes along with them.”
Life Tip: When you’re thinking about buying something you don’t necessarily need, imagine the item in one hand and the cash in the other.
Which one would you take?
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On Little Endian & Big Endian
The Secret Life of Programs: Understand Computers — Craft Better Code (Jonathan E. Steinhart)
The term endian—based on the royal edicts in Lilliput and Blefuscu in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels regarding which was the proper end on which to crack open a soft-boiled egg—is used to describe the difference.
“I woke with this conclusion from Skin in the Game: 1) Things work thanks to a handful of people; the rest operates by situational imitation, narrow mimicry, and semi-conscious role-playing.”
“My point is this: the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up.”
“I think you are having a different sort of heartbreak. Maybe a kind of heartbreak of being in the world when you don’t know how to be. If that makes any sense?”
On Censorship and Control;
“Push them a little further and they’ll invoke “family values”, a phrase that more and more frequently makes me feel like falling to the floor and projectile vomiting. Censorship and the suppression of reading materials is rarely about family values and almost always about control. Who is snapping the whip, who is saying “no”, and who is saying “go”. Censorship’s bottom line is this: if the novel Christine offends me, I don’t want to just make sure it’s kept from my kid, I want to make sure it’s kept from your kid as well. And all the kids.
This bit of intellectual arrogance — undemocratic and as old as time — is best expressed this way: If it’s bad for me and my family, it’s bad for everyone’s family. Yet when books are run out of school classrooms and even out of school libraries as a result of this idea, I’m never much disturbed. Not as a citizen, not as a writer, not even as a schoolteacher, which I was trained to be and used to do. What I tell the kids is don’t get mad, get even. Don’t spend time waving signs or carrying petitions around the neighborhood. Instead run — don’t walk — to the nearest non-school library or to the local bookstore, and get whatever it was they banned. Read what they’re trying to keep out of your eyes. Read what they’re trying to keep out of your brain. Because that’s exactly what you need to know.”
—Stephen King https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-rrg2MRUGA
h/t: Daring Fireball, https://daringfireball.net/2022/01/attempted_censorship_three_acts
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