His friend said: “Well, obviously, because it just looks as if the sun is going around the earth.”

To which the philosopher replied: “Well, what would it look like if it had looked as if the earth were rotating?”

I’m tired of not acting until I have a template for action, a plan that’ll see me through, and I’m proceeding even if it implies missteps and inefficiency. Trust the universe? Trust Tom Mullaly.

I read:

“Nothing bothers me more than sloth. The objective is to fix mistakes of ambition and not make mistakes of sloth. I work my ass off.”
from Tim Ferriss, author of  The 4-Hour Work Week

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…I felt that I was trying to describe an unthinkable present and I actually feel that science fiction’s best use today is the exploration of contemporary reality rather than any attempt to predict where we are going…The best thing you can do with science today is use it to explore the present. Earth is the alien planet now.

If I could know one thing about the world a hundred years from now, or have access to one train of information, I think I’d want their history of our time, because not only would it tell me a lot of things that I can’t know about our time, but it would tell me everything I needed to know about their time, like what they’re willing to believe.

“The future is already here. It’s just not very evenly distributed.”