Love doesn’t need your permission, that’s what hope is for.
Knowledge is the physical manifestation of consciousness.
No matter what you want to do, you still have to start where you are.
If time were perfectly symmetric, gravity wouldn’t exist.
Emergent behaviors rely on computational geometry and scale.
When our theories continually move us into more and more complicated explanations then, it is certain that we are moving in the wrong direction.
Three dimensional time converts scalar waves into transverse waves.
The benefit of being friends will vastly outweigh the benefit of being enemies.
War is the echo that never dies. No society strives for war, they are always tricked into it.
The greatest desire is the desire to be free. The greatest freedom is the freedom to desire.
A slight deviation form what we would think of as symmetry gives us a bit more information and the mind seems to enjoy this stimulation because it is always looking for value. Beauty is a slight deviation from expectation.
There is great beauty in the world but you will not trip over it with every step. When a man dulls himself to beauty, the world begins to die.
The power of a young woman is in her beauty and charm. The power of a woman in her later years is her social position and her ability to convince.
The best leaders don’t give a damn about the definition of leadership, they are thinking about more important things.
I don’t have to be the smartest person in the room, I just have to be in the room.
The heart lives in that space between harmonic regularity and chaotic uncertainty.
The most valuable thing you own is your heart. Guard it well.
Math is the language of the head, music is the language of the heart. Of the two, it is music that speaks the most truth.
Handling power is very much like handling explosives, you have to have a great deal of respect for it and most people don’t.
When passion rises to its full expression, it touches the soul and lifts the spirit.
I personally feel that the universe behaves more like a song than an equation because math is about static law and music is about dynamic expression.
Our reality is a blend of the impossible becoming possible.
The structure of the universe is a computational geometry that is fractal in nature.
If the universe is made of information then, we are moving from a state of profound truth to a state of meaningless gibberish.
What is man but an illusion perceiving itself in a nested hierarchy of holographic information.
Joy is so deeply rooted in our souls that it is not tossed about by the waves of circumstance.
In any society, concentrations of power should be avoided at all cost.
Truth as a time coordinate; truth lives in the past, the future is uncertain.Truth as a scale coordinate; truth lives in the macro world, the micro world is uncertain.Truth lives in the macro past and uncertainty lives in the micro future.
In the future, designer viruses will be more popular than designer jeans.
The more we rely on our presuppositions, the less we will learn.
Light pierces the darkness and is consumed, truth pierces the chaos and is consumed. Every engine takes advantage of a difference. In order to give light, something must be consumed.
The value of trust is very much like the value of dignity.
Imagination is the connecting of disparate things in novel ways.
Imagination is probably the most remarkable thing that exist in the universe.
Novelty is the fuel on which the imagination runs.
The imagination goes where it will, you can be set aloft by it, or you can cage it with reason.
The more children there are in the world, the more the world is filled with imagination.
The surest cure for selfishness is to continually practice random acts of kindness.
If you zoom in far enough, the information is there but it contains no meaning. The meaning emerges as a collective principle of organization.
The core is harmonic regularity, the outer darkness is random noise, we are in the space between them. Every engine takes advantage of a difference. These two extremes are woven into each other. The eternal now is the processing of meaning.
The density of meaning is external and context dependent.
Information may appear in a digital form but meaning never does.
The woman desires the bad boy that is only good for her and the man desires the good girl that is only naughty for him.
There are 10,000 explanations for why evil exist, but only one that I agree with, ” And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
To truly understand a man, you must look at his enemies.
Debates should always move in the direction of understanding.
Those that control the definitions, steer the culture as they please.
Those who feel nothing, gain nothing. Think about this. If you do not feel, your desires don’t exist and cannot be rewarded.
You cannot solve a level four problem with level one thinking.
The energy contained in hatred is destructive, the energy contained in love is constructive.
The world has become a much smaller place, there is no longer room for hatred.
Have you been called to greatness? There is a way to tell. Do you have a pulse?
An insufficient level of awareness is indistinguishable from ignorance.
A lie has more dynamic than truth but truth has more potential.
The Bible is a hologram and Jesus is on every page.
The paradox of choice; the more options there are, the harder it is to chose and the higher the expectations and so, the satisfaction is diminished.
The reason I believe that emotion is a higher state than intellect is that chess computers don’t enjoy winning.
Pay it forward generates more value than tit for tat.
What we value matters, we become what we are connected to.
The true value of something is the portion of your life you are willing to trade for it.
We are searching for the most humble man on the planet so that we can award him with a great honor but we are having trouble finding the guy.
Isn’t it strange that it took so long to realize that all you needed to change was your attitude.
It is all about value. For good outcomes, we have to value the right things to make the best choices.
We live in the shadows of perception. Our dull awareness gives us no useful clues as to why we are here.
All natural laws retain the balance contained within the scope of that law, no man made law can do this. It is better to understand the natural laws that govern society then to create man made laws that will not work.
An overly complex explanation began with an unsophisticated assumption.
The best evidence of unsophisticated ideas is the behavior that follows.
There is nothing quite so sexy as good old fashioned enthusiasm.
Imperfection contains more information than perfection.
In the digital world, nothing truly exist unless it exist in at least two places.
Aversion to conflict will always generate conflict.
You can’t make a difference, if you don’t know what it is.
If you want the miracle to happen, you have to create the space for it.
You may regard yourself as a accident from the cosmos, but I prefer to think of you as a miracle.
Most really crazy people can only take reality in small doses.
Nothing novel or interesting happens unless it is on the border between order and chaos.
Stress is being responsible for things that you have no control over.
Beware of the man who’s extraordinary claims end in a sales pitch.
The true definition of innocence is unfiltered perception.
Innocence is the ability to see things for what they are.
As you attention is divided the opportunity for error increases exponentially.
The best evidence of unsophisticated ides is the behavior that follows.
A worthy legacy is the irrevocable consequence of dreaming.
Planning, awareness, and communication are essential in conducting all of our activities with a reasonable level of safety. Accidents are novelty gone bad.
An echo is an imperfect copy of the original, it is information but it is information from a different time and place.
The integration of information and vulnerabilities move together.
Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn’t change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn’t make a difference.
Information is a difference that makes a difference. Truth is information that doesn’t change and self referential noise is a difference that doesn’t make a difference.
As the complexity in any system increases, the ability to form a correct understanding decreases exponentially.