So here we are with this month’s selection of recently encountered quotes.
Five signs I’m probably a dragon:
• I hoard useless shiny things
• I eat too much
• I sleep too much
• I don’t like leaving my cave
• I have an excessive desire to flame annoying humans
[unknown]
I’m not angry, I am overstimulated.
I am not in a mood, I am recharging my limited social battery.
I am not being difficult, I need to understand the full context before I participate.
[unknown]
We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant & animal life and to care for none of these things.
[Charlotte Mason]
Unfortunately some people were not put here to evolve. They are here to remind you what it looks like if you don’t.
[unknown]
Microsoft has actually brilliantly leveraged the lousy security landscape – for which they are in no small part responsible – to capture even larger market-share, as we now need commercial entities to produce the software required to protect us from their failures, and therefore need a more uniform environment to achieve the necessary scale. The uniformity then guarantees an ever greater scale for the inevitable conflagration. Monocultures guarantee one big fire instead of a bunch of small survivable ones. We really have no interest in learning from evolution, in no small part because it would produce fewer billionaires.
[Local Cranky IT Guy, via @adub, https://kolektiva.social/@adub]
In the thorny acacia trees of the Kalahari Desert, avian construction crews are hard at work.
[https://www.popsci.com/environment/bird-culture/]
That should be a great opening sentence for a Terry Pratchett novel!
The world is very very beautiful if you look at it, but most people don’t look very much.
[David Hockney]
Don’t think about making art. Just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they’re deciding, make more art.
[Andy Warhol]
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
[Denis Diderot, French philosopher]
A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.
[David Hume (1711-1776), Scottish Philosopher]
But, good God! what an age is this, and what a world is this! that a man cannot live without playing the knave and dissimulation.
[Samuel Pepys]
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
[Henry David Thoreau]