Can you ever escape from your past? -Unknown
Foul Tarnished, in search of the Elden Ring. Emboldened by the Flame of Ambition. Someone must extinguish thy flame. -Margit the Fell Omen from Elden Ring, moments before dying
the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad’Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson. -Irulan from Dune
Amor fati (Love your fate.) -Unknown
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. -Marcus Aurelius
Gratitude gives you power over adversity. -Unknown
Comfort is the killer of man. -Unknown
You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink. -Unknown
The world won’t lower its difficulty to cater to your weaknesses. -Unknown
People want an authority to tell them how to value things, but they choose this authority not based on facts or results. They choose it because it seems authoritative and familiar. -Michael Burry
Comparison is the thief of joy. -Unknown
Without a goal, you can’t score. -Johan Cruyff
If he is not your brother in faith, he is your brother in humanity. -Imam Ali
If, as the official Google line claims, this LaMDA AI is simply imitating human dialogue patterns, then we also have a philosophical problem with the question of when babies become conscious beings. Babies also learn through imitation. When do they have minds? AI researchers are going to hit this one repeatedly. Imitation or not, it’s going to feel to them as if they are dealing with conscious beings. -Unknown
For what purpose, then, do I make a man my friend? In order to have someone for whom I may die, whom I may follow into exile, against whose death I may stake my own life, and pay the pledge, too. -Seneca
Man can not remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. -Alexis Carrel
Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person or that person, this challenge, this deed. Quit the evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in right now. You are not some disinterested bystander. Participate. Exert yourself. -Epictetus
The best way to fix bugs in your code is to put them in there yourself. -Unknown
Inveniam viam (I’ll either find a way or make one.) -Hannibal et al.
Conscience is a man’s compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities when directing one’s course by it, one must still try to follow its direction. -Vincent van Gogh
Polska gurom! -Mariusz Pudzianowski
I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest. -Napoleon Bonaparte
There is only one way to avoid criticism; Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. -Aristotle
Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75. -Benjamin Franklin
The world is beautiful, you have plenty of time. Just pick the best person to share it with. -Uncle Paul
I am preaching the message that, with apparently only one life to live on this earth, you ought to try to make significant contributions to humanity rather than just get along through life comfortably-- that the life of trying to achieve excellence in some area is in itself a worthy goal for your life. -Richard Hamming