“You just begin. You do the math. You solve one problem and you solve the next one and then the next. And if you solve enough problems, you get to come home.”
Mark Watney, The Martian
10.27.24
"Life only makes sense backwards. But we have to live it forwards."
Pinky, Memoir of a Snail
05.21.24
“Life is not a submarine. There are no plans.”
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
12.19.23
“Life is beautiful
Even when the world is wack,
So much beauty, we forget to be reminded
That you can be anywhere and find it
Try it
I promise I'm not lying
Try it
You can find it
Try it
You can find it
Try it”
Yasiin Bey, My favorite band
05.10.23
“Ah, anything...in this general area, right in here...Anything, below the stereo, and on this side of the Bicentennial glasses...Anything between the ashtray, and the thimbles...Anything in this three inches...Right in here, this area, that includes the Chiclets, but not the erasers.”
Navin R. Johnson, The Jerk
04.22.23
“Shed your skin
Find a better body to fit in”
Title Fight, Shed
03.24.23
“I've always walked the right side of the road
If I wasn't making song I wouldn't be a thug selling drugs
But a man with a plan and if I was a rug cleaner
Betcha Pos'll have the cleanest rugs I am”
Posdnuos, I AM I BE
07.17.22
“Just because someone stumbles and loses their way, it doesn’t mean they’re lost forever. Sometimes we all need a little help.”
Professor X, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
03.01.22
“One way I would describe great design is to communicate something that is very complex in a very simple way. That’s what I think great design is and that’s the hardest thing to do.”
John Pylypczak, Design Canada
02.24.22
“Get data. Clean data. Fly”
Vonn Johnson, Data Mishaps Night
02.20.22
“It’s not enough to have a name. People need something to call you.”
Derek DelGaudio, In & Of Itself
11.14.21
“If you aim at nothing, you hit nothing.”
Simu Liu, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
11.06.21
“Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing”
Joe MacMillan, Halt and Catch Fire
11.04.21
“Dreams make good stories, but everything important happens when we’re awake.”
Duncan Idaho, Dune
11.03.21
“Stories have emotions that data doesn't.”
Dan Ariely, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
09.01.21
“I don't know if I'm unhappy because I'm not free, or if I'm not free because I'm unhappy.”.
Patricia Franchin, Breathless
08.04.21
“Now that I no longer live in New York, I don’t know if I could ever move back. All that young-girl idealism is someone else’s now. That city I know doesn’t exist anymore, and it’s more alive in my head than it is when I’m there”.
Kim Gordon, Girl In A Band
08.02.21
“The most important time in history is, now, the present”
Talib Kweli, K.O.S. (Determination)
05.27.21
“When things are getting you down, there’s always the movies”
Arlette, Call My Agent
05.24.21
"Trying is having the intention to fail. You've got to scrap that word from your vocab. Say you're gonna do it and you will."
Sydney Fife, I Love You Man