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“He was a generous colleague, never holding back a tip, phone number, or detail that could help, and could spend hours talking over the ins and outs of a story to get it just right.”

— Sheera Frenkel, cnn.com

“There wasn't a clear, identifiable emotion within me, except for greed and, possibly, total disgust. I had all the characteristics of a human being— flesh, blood, skin, hair— but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that the normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, th…”

— Bret Easton Ellis, Patrick Bateman , American Psycho

“If we have no destination toward which we are progressing, then the only thing that motivates our movement is to get away from something threatening. We move from problem to problem, avoiding calamity as best we can, our worldview increasingly characterized by a sense of panic. Our news networks and…”

— Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

“We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now; and not only creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is no…”

— Paul of Tarsus, Romans 8

“Real time has no divisions at all, but is uninterruptedly continuous: at midnight yesterday did not click over into today. No one can find the exact point of midnight, and if it is not exact, how can it be midnight? And we have no experience of today as being next to yesterday, as it is represented…”

— Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word

“Conscience is the inward ear that listens for the repetition of the infinite demand.”

— Simon Critchley, The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology

“The only proof of love may be the ease with which it can be betrayed.”

— Simon Critchley, Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine

“Our sense of time is notoriously subjective and thus dependent upon the quality of our attention, whether of interest or boredom, and upon the alignment of our behavior in terms of routines, goals, and deadlines. Here the present is self-sufficient, but it is not a static present. It is a dancing pr…”

— Alan W Watts, The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

“There is no difference in principle between sharpening perception with an external instrument, such as a microscope, and sharpening it with an internal instrument, such mescaline, LSD, or psilocybin. If they are an affront to the dignity of the mind, the microscope is an affront to the dignity of th…”

— Alan W Watts, The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

“We once believed ourselves to understand it, but are now in difficulty.”

— Plato, The Sophist

“Slowly it becomes clear...”

— Alan W Watts, The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

“The lowbrow way of forgetting oneself is to get drunk, to be diverted with entertainments, or to exploit such natural means of self-transcendence as sexual intercourse. The highbrow way is to throw oneself into the pursuit of the arts, of social service, or of religious mysticism. These measures are…”

— Alan W Watts, The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

“For a long time we have been accustomed to the compartmentalization of religion and science as if they were two quite different and basically unrelated ways of seeing the world. I do not believe that this state of doublethink can last. It must eventually be replaced by a view of the world which is n…”

— Alan W Watts, The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

“In the first Reformation, the Bible was translated into the common vernacular, printed, and mass-produced, providing direct access to the 'word of God,' which had previously been protected by the priests. With psychedelics, many people now have direct and unmediated access to the mystical and vision…”

— Daniel Pinchbeck, The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

“Reflection is useless, the world is senseless. Evil is its only permanence. God is not alive. Love cannot be trusted. Surface, surface, surface was all that anyone found meaning in...”

— Patrick Bateman , Patrick Bateman , Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“But even after admitting this — and I have, countless times, in just about every act I've committed — and coming face-to-face with these truths, there is no catharsis. I gain no deeper knowledge about myself, no new understanding can be extracted from my telling. There has been no reason for me to t…”

— Bret Easton Ellis, Patrick Bateman , American Psycho

“Basically if you believe in Moore’s Law and you believe that hosting is going to become more and more commoditized over time, not being a host is a good idea. WordPress.com is a host at the end of the day. But we want to be able to provide a lot value and create a lot of value regardless of whether…”

— Matt Mullenweg, Forbes.com

“It should not matter what hours you work or where you're [working] from. What matters is how you communicate and what you get done. It's a waste of the natural resources of time and energy to commute; when we break the shackles of what looks like work versus what actually drives value, 90% of the co…”

— Matt Mullenweg, WSJ.

“The best approach is to think like a 100% owner of your company with long-term time horizon. Then you work backward to the present and see what makes sense and what remains. Versus, here is what we have now, how do we carry it forward?”

— Marc Andreessen, A16z.co

“You're everything that I want and ask for, you're all that I'd dreamed.”

— Billy Corgan, Stand Inside Your Love