Wisdom

Those who fight monsters – watch, not to become one yourself. For if you stare into an abyss – watch, as the abyss will look back into you.

–

Video games are made of light and mathematics.

–

We have Paleolithic emotions and medieval institutions, but godlike technology.

–

Don’t lose sight of what’s right in front of your nose.

–

As a scientist, I do what I must, because I can.

–

The medium is the message.

–

Humans need to develop both roots and wings during their gestation.

–

No camera may compete with the brush and canvas until such a time as photographs might be taken in heaven and hell.

–

God does not put a burden onto the shoulders of a man who cannot bear it.

–

Control is the maximization of required input in relation to a desired outcome. Its measure is the delta of this function.

–

What do you want? Support the people I love by doing what I’m best at without burdening my environment. That’s all.

–

Yesterday is history – tomorrow is a mystery – today is a gift, that’s why its called present.

–

Man cannot step into the same river twice.

–

Trust does not preclude control.

–

All victors are stuck in the past.

–

Think, speak and act in unified harmony.

–

What really drove me to vinyl are the cost and the inconvenience.

–

Vote populist!

–

Musik, Architektur, Informatik: formale Theorie am Schnittpunkt von Modellierung und Wirklichkeit.

–

Don’t judge a fish by it’s ability to climb.

–

Education: critical evaluation in breath and depth.

–

Shit happens.

–

Only speak if to advance the silence.

–

The measure of importance of any given occurence has a direct correlation to how long before the deadline it is done.

–

No one will get wet from a simulated rainstorm.

–

Molding a child into a conforming member of society takes 100x “no” each and every day.

–

Reality is You.

–

Let it be.

–

Negativity is a form of suffering.

–

A German and a Brit walk through Hamburg. “There sure aren’t any old buildings around here anymore”, says the Brit. The German, calm and resonable, responds: “Well, yeah. You bombed them all”.

–

Remember: Upright.

–

Industrialism is rooted in postulating a hopeful future, radically different from the given present, first observed in the 1820s by a generation of people witnessing technological paradigm shifts in daily life: sewage, electricity and refrigeration.

–

Alles ist im Fluss.
–

Invert, always invert.

–

Christians have saints, capitalists have billionaires, ancient Greece had wise men.

–

Do Children. They Scale.

–

The Golden Rule of any system: Specific beats General.

–

The greatest human joy

Be it a woman or a boy

Is very much certain:

A shiny new toy.

–

Together or not?

–

Whats the ugliest part of your body?

–

You tend to worry less about what other people might think of you when you realize how rarely they do.

–

Der Leib des Rauchers – Gefangener im Korsett des Willens.

–

Paper: world’s first scalable technology.

–

Philosophy: a solipsistic periscope.

–

The grand tragedy of communism: An idea is only ever as good as it’s execution.

–

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

–

Wollen befreit: das ist die wahre Lehre von Wille und Freiheit.

–

Warum eine Lösung suchen, das Problem an sich ist kaum ausgekostet.

–

The elderly wait for death in their nursing homes, killing time.

–

Life is more enjoyable without a hangover.

–

Ein Leben ohne Rausch ist möglich, aber sinnlos.

–

If you go through hell, keep going.

–

I really need a crowd; I just don’t need it all the time.

–

The quality of chain-store fast food might be one step above a garbage can, but they’re reliable and you know what they will serve you.

–

How far is it?

–

Habit might be the most powerful force in the universe.

–

Singapore – Disneyland with the death penalty 

–

Biology is the only science where division and multiplication describe the same concept. 

–

There are only two kinds of computer science problems, trivial and potentially impossible.

–

Lass mal in die Scheisse treten!

–

I like machines, they might look complex but unlike people all possible interactions are based on simple concepts.

–

Software ate the world.

–

It’s harder to read code than to write it.

–

All problems stem from the fact that man cannot sit contently inside a room by himself.

–

You got wealth or power? I got intimacy and integrity.

–

Marriage is a lifelong exercise in expectation management.

–

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. When it has gone past I will observe it’s path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

–

White papers are grey literature.

–

Easy reading implies hard writing.

–

Bier in Maßen trinken.

–

Mähen Äbte Heu? Neh, Äbte mähen nie Heu, Äbte beten.

–

The Pretty Things were intentionally ugly.

–

Strive to become more of what you are.

–

QuvlIjDaq yIH tu’be’lu’jaj!

–

For but two things are certain in life: death, and taxes.

–

Family diners are communal drug trips.

–

Hakuna Matata.

–

No content is worth watching an ad for.

–

There are only two kinds of programming languages: the ones everyone complains about and the ones nobody uses.

–

If you work very hard there’s no time to earn money.

–

There are unknowns and known unknowns.

–

The road to hell is comfortable.

–

I don’t care if the software I run is unstable crap, as long as its the latest unstable crap.

–

Jiggle the planet.

–

More. Always more.