"Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

- Steve Jobs

Mathematics = Complex Oversimplification.

- Demian

Intellectual Property: Some are builders, Some are owners, Some are renters, Some are homeless.

- Demian

Lady Justice was not depicted with a blindfold until the 1500's. Perhaps it's time for her to lose the blindfold and see wtf is going on.

"Evil moves faster than Justice."

- Demian

"Travel is fatal to prejudice."

- Mark Twain

"If occasions for the exercise of judgment are diminished, the moral-cognitive virtue of attentiveness will atrophy."

- Matthew Crawford

"Arrogance too oft doth eclipse wisdom."

- Demian

600,000 children starving to death in the Horn of Africa, market down 560 points, you have a place to lay your head and sleep tonight and some one or ones to say I love you to.

It's not all bad.

Be thankful but not content.

We have a long way to go.

"Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know of avoiding the trap of thinking you have something to lose."

- Steve Jobs

"Staring at our own economic and political belly button and quibbling over nonsense, we slowly become just another nation that sits by as others suffer."

http://news.yahoo.com/us-29-000-somali-children-under-5-dead-104757443.html

"Even if I had only half the talent of my friends I'd still be pretty bad ass."

- Demian

"Imagination is more potent with knowledge."

- Demian

Fashion is the art of covering the body sometimes only to be uncovered.

-Demian

(source: http://demian.co/content/art-fashion)

I know how some people sleep at night; they have no conscience.

- Demian

"Genius is perseverance in disguise."

"Currency: I haz it."

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

- Albert Einstein

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"It's not what you know, it's what you want to know."

- Demian

"Sometimes you don't know you're missing a piece until someone fills it."

- Demian

"I am immortal on this Earth until God decides to take me."

- John Wesley

Art is just clues for those who haven't yet figured it all out.

Dreams

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

- Langston Hughes

No Regrets

Out of love,
No regrets --
Though the goodness
Be wasted forever.

Out of love,
No regrets --
Though the return
Be never.

- Langston Hughes

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

- Mark Twain

"I thought I could organize freedom; how Scandinavian of me."

- Bjork