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“There are limits to what even interested persons can ask of each other.”

— David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays

“Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure?”

— David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays

“People really do judge one another according to their use of language. Constantly.”

— David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster

“Every time someone I know decides to terminate a pregnancy, I am required to believe simultaneously that she is doing the wrong thing and that she has every right to do it.”

— David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays

“Few know how to answer & evangelize this well why this #product why this #experience what #motivation #UX”

— Ha Phan, twitter.com

“How the fuck did we go from joking about addiction to dying from it?”

— Mélanie Berliet, Surviving in Spirit: A Memoir about Sisterhood and Addiction

“The Law of Siblings dictated that our relationship was never more than a few milliseconds of warmth beyond repair, even under the worst circumstances.”

— Mélanie Berliet, Surviving in Spirit: A Memoir about Sisterhood and Addiction

“You could think of the URL as just another component — it renders something based on the current app state. With that in mind, is it easy to add URLs without significant changes to the code and in a way the fits the redux pattern?”

— Marvel Engineering, Managing the URL in a Redux app

“It’s easy to appreciate someone’s greatest talents or traits or even their quirks, but when you find someone whose flaws you adore and who, in turn, appreciates yours, it all makes sense.”

— Mélanie Berliet, Surviving in Spirit: A Memoir about Sisterhood and Addiction

“If the alternative to enabling was alienating, was there a right choice?”

— Mélanie Berliet, Surviving in Spirit: A Memoir about Sisterhood and Addiction

“Making no money had inevitably started to suck. I don’t care if you own a yoga mat, blend your own green juices, or have a Master’s in Feng Shui. It’s frustrating to adjust from making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to earning zero dollars an hour pursuing sanity and happiness.”

— Mélanie Berliet, Surviving in Spirit: A Memoir about Sisterhood and Addiction

“You dont have to torture your consciousness with endless thinking.”

— Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

“Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH . . . but I ran away from that seashore and never came back again without that secret knowledge: that it didn't want me there, that I wa…”

— Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

“And it’s finally only in the woods you get that nostalgia for 'cities' at last, you dream of long gray journeys to cities where soft evenings’ll unfold like Paris but never seeing how sickening it will be because of the primordial innocence of health and stillness in the wilds — So I tell myself 'Be…”

— Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

“There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.”

— Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

— Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

“For the animal to be happy it is enough that this moment be enjoyable. But man is hardly satisfied with this at all. He is much more concerned to have enjoyable memories and expectations — especially the latter. With these assured, he can put up with an extremely miserable present. Without this assu…”

— Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

“Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would 'lief' or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, w…”

— Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

“Paradox as it may seem, we likewise find life meaningful only when we have seen that it is without purpose, and know the 'mystery of the universe' only when we are convinced that we know nothing about it at all.”

— Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

“The common error of ordinary religious practice is to mistake the symbol for the reality, to look at the finger pointing the way and then to suck it for comfort rather than follow it.”

— Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity