I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.
Usage is like oxygen for ideas.
I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. So, on the whole, I think the power that online distribution confers is a positive thing for society. Online we can act as a fifth estate.
A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.
If you're building a startup or any sort of organization, take a few moments to reflect on the qualities that the people you most enjoy working with embody and the user experience of new people joining your organization, from the offer letter to their first day.
You can learn practically anything you want in the world online.
Technology is best when it brings people together.
The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.
Ask anyone what that means, what it means to see a miracle, and they will say that it's something impossible, but they mean that a miracle is something formerly believed to be impossible that turns out not to be, not to be impossible, in other words, but possible after all. If this were really true, then miracles would be the most ordinary things in the world, the most uninspiring things in the world, and what can one expect from people who have never been anything but ordinary and uninspired.
People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.
However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no absolute self apart from things, you realize that essentially, you are all the other beings.