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10/7/22 . the best way to protect your children is to let them believe you have stopped -see 2020 tv series . common sense is very uncommon. it's rare nowadays -duke . never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slowly -plato . if you stay, stay forever if you go, do it today if you change, change for the better. and if you talk, make sure you mean what you say -meme with leonardo decaprio . first we overlook evil then we permit evil then we legalize evil then we promote evil then we celebrate evil then we persecute those who still call it evil -maybe fr. dwight longenecker @dlongenecker1 . the person i miss the most is the person i used to be -my uncle ken . i'm not a hater of any software -ben . 'we each deserve to choose our fate even if that fate is death' -westworld . "not preparing for failure is preparing to fail" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-D1AROQNGU . "poor people need to learn the right place to be a crook (like being a banker in usa)" -the atlantis report youtube . "steal an apple and you are a thief. steal a kingdom and you are a statesman" -alladin . "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti . Like the futility of democracy. You spend years, sweat, blood and tears to overthrow tyranny, and form a free society with general suffrage, and it just takes a crisis for the general suffrage to cheer for tyranny again. Like when Hitler was VOTED in to power in a democracy. -biv . "time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time" -youtube comment under a video . “It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.” ? Robert A Heinlein . "Gold is the money of Kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants - but debt is the money of slaves." -Norm Franz . “the best exercise is the kind you do” -unknown . (about standup comedy) "You either get good at jokes or become the joke" -Selandra Lillithina . "we had a difference of religion. she thought she was god and i disagreed" -frank . Quote for your site later; "What society does to its children, so will its children do to society." -Marcus Tullius Cicero . 'eat your food as medicine, or you will have to eat medicine as your food' -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGNSpH0n-Qw . 'the cemetaries are full of people that were in a hurry to get there' -bivarg . 'PAM - possibly a man' -valerie . "that's the problem with doing the right thing. sometimes you do it by yourself" -aladdin 2 . "Women have a lowest acceptable standard. Men are looking for the least bad. (in a match)" -bivarg . (Leck's favorite poem) To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour A Robin Red breast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage -william blake . "I give you the mausoleum (a watch) of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it." -william faulkner . "bread makes you dead." -bivarg . "the choice you refuse to make will be made for you" -well known quote . "(life is shit) but we can always use it for fertalizer and make something worthy out of it" -janicesweets . "until you solve the money problem, that's the biggest problem" -a recent youtube video (i forget which) . Bivarg: Do you know what a Swedish divorce cost on average? Leck: half? Bivarg: 500 to 600 (us dollars) . "if we don't stand up for the values this union was founded on, what are we defending?" -orville . "your parents never change how they see you" -the magicians tv series season 4 (Leck's favorite tv series of all time) . "i have what i need, i don't need what i want" -my uncle ken told me taxi drivers in singapore usually say this . "if you aren't free to make bad choices, you aren't really free" "give us money because we can make laws saying give us money" -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_kyHXHVwJw&t=620s . "perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence" -vince lombardi . "I choose to drink! And I blame myself! I am happy to! And you know why? Because I choose to drink! I got an ex-wife and a son I never talk to! And you know why? Because I choose to drink!" -denzel washington in flight . "I came into this world Kicking and Screaming covered in someone else's blood. I have no problem going out the same way" -youtube quote . "our frame of reference is shackled by our experiences" -unknown . "power is a curse for those who seek it" -the shannara chronicles . "the things for which you are responsible, do you have the authority to do those things?" -my uncle ken . "when it comes to excelling mentally, the needs of the few totally outweigh the needs of the many. because those few, in the long run, will benefit the many through scientific discovery, medical advances, and technological advancement" -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1x4L-sKt5E . "it's harder than it looks, but it's not as hard as you think it is" -former division 1 football referee . "rising through the military is like walking upstairs. each step is well definied and predictable. rising in a business is like rock climbing. you're always looking for handholds, sometimes going sideways before you rise." -a free business magazine . "how do you spell love? t-i-m-e" -tay . "the greatest teacher, failure is" -yoda . "if you could have what you want, what would you have?" -ken turner (my uncle) . "we are the first generation to have gotten to the end of the benefits of economic growth" -consumerism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l5fRI-YnG0&t=2731s . Leck: and true blonds aren't really dumb. some are, but most are not. that was an old stereotype Bivarg: Might be fake blonds. The fumes from the peroxide . Bivarg: Nothing worthwhile is ever easy . "he who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither" -ben franklin . "too often, the ones who are very sick or deceased are not the ones who deserve to be" -original quote . "What luck for rulers that men do not think" -Adolf Hitler . "nobody has ever changed the world by doing what the world told them to do" -ted talk 2/6/15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yt6raj-S1M . leck: good morning afternoon! anyone awake? Bivarg: On line but i dont know about awake. leck: you could be in the matrix then Bivarg: I probably am. Only a faulty ai could build a so fuck-upped world. . "Id rather be able to walk the streets without bodyguards than being very rich. A golden cage is still a cage." -Bivarg . "It aint what you dont know that kills you. Its what you know, that aint so." -mark twain . "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -John F. Kennedy . "money should be a tool only. it should not be possible to use money to make money" -original quote . "why should a financial engineer get paid 4x-100x as much as a real engineer? a real engineer builds bridges. a financial engineer builds dreams. when those dreams turn out to be nightmares, other people pay, not the financial engineers" -inside job http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1645089/ . arrogance is the untrue belief you are better than people. apparent authority is when you are better than other people, and knowing you are better than others is not neccessarily bad -original quote . true despair is when you realize you are the smartest one in the room -bivarg . " On 16 July 1945, the first atomic bomb was exploded near Alamagordo, New Mexico. The American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the laboratory at Los Alamos where it had been built, who witnessed it, said later: \91I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita\85 \93I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.\94\92 Oppenheimer was in fact slightly misquoting the epic Hindu poem. In the dialogue between the Kshatriya prince Arjuna and his divine charioteer Krishna, the god says: I am all-powerful Time which destroys all things, and I have come here to slay these men. Even if thou doest not fight, all the warriors facing thee shall die. " . "more people, more problems" -original quote . "those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind" -unknown . "hapiness and wisdom vary inversely" -original quote . "Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." -plato . \93It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.\94 ? Mahatma Gandhi . "stupid people care what you have done. smart people care what you can do." -original quote . "Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them." -epictetus . \93Dr. Kyrie: Doctors are men, who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, for men, of whom they know nothing at all.\94 -escape plan . "Garland Greene: What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?" -con air . " Frank Towns: Why give people false hope? Liddle: Come on man.Most people spend their whole lives hanging on to hopes and dreams that are never going to come true but they hold on to them. Why are you going to give up on them now when you need them most? Frank Towns: You are assuming I'm one of those people who has hopes and dreams. Liddle: I find it hard to believe that a man who learns to fly never had a dream. Frank Towns: Look, how can I let those people build that plane when I don't believe it will work? And, every day they waste trying to build it brings them one day closer to dying. Liddle: I think a man only needs one thing in life. He just needs someone to love. If you can't give him that, then give him something to hope for. And if you can't give him that, just give him something to do. " -flight of the phoenix . "society rewards intelligence, however most people prefer others to be unintelligent." -original quote . Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. -original quote . If you have no regrets and learn from your mistakes, you will improve socially, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually forever To get to paradise try to follow the 10 commandments and don't do the 7 fatal sins. . Never put passion before principle. 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. quotes by stephen hawking 1942-2018 . [On President Bush's plan to get to Mars in 10 years] Stupid. Robots would do a better job and be much cheaper because you don't have to bring them back. . [Question: Do you feel that scientists correct themselves as often as they should?] . More often than politicians, but not as often as they should. . [Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years. . A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought. . All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. If, like me, you have looked at the stars, and tried to make sense of what you see, you too have started to wonder what makes the universe exist. . Consideration of particle emission from black holes would seem to suggest that God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. . Einstein was wrong when he said, 'God does not play dice'. Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen. . Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? . Hubble's observations suggested that there was a time, called the big bang, when the universe was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense. Under such conditions all the laws of science, and therefore all ability to predict the future, would break down. If there were events earlier than this time, then they could not affect what happens at the present time. Their existence can be ignored because it would have no observational consequences. One may say that time had a beginning at the big bang, in the sense that earlier times simply would not be defined. It should be emphasized that this beginning in time is very different from those that had been considered previously. In an unchanging universe a beginning in time is something that has to be imposed by some being outside the universe; there is no physical necessity for a beginning. One can imagine that God created the universe at literally any time in the past. On the other hand, if the universe is expanding, there may be physical reasons why there had to be a beginning. One could still imagine that God created the universe at the instant of the big bang, or even afterwards in just such a way as to make it look as though there had been a big bang, but it would be meaningless to suppose that it was created before the big bang. An expanding universe does not preclude a creator, but it does place limits on when he might have carried out his job! . I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex. [Hawking adopted this statement from a remark made to him by his former post-doc, Nathan Myhrvold.] . I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. . I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all the normal situations. We don\92t know how the laws fit together, and what happens under extreme conditions. But I expect we will find a complete unified theory sometime this century. The is no limit to the complexity that we can build using those basic laws. [Answer to question: Some say that while the twentieth century was the century of physics, we are now entering the century of biology. What do you think of this?] . I want my books sold on airport bookstalls. . If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone ... Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason\97for then we would know the mind of God. . Let me describe briefly how a black hole might be created. Imagine a star with a mass 10 times that of the sun. During most of its lifetime of about a billion years the star will generate heat at its center by converting hydrogen into helium. The energy released will create sufficient pressure to support the star against its own gravity, giving rise to an object with a radius about five times the radius of the sun. The escape velocity from the surface of such a star would be about 1,000 kilometers per second. That is to say, an object fired vertically upward from the surface of the star with a velocity of less than 1,000 kilometers per second would be dragged back by the gravitational field of the star and would return to the surface, whereas an object with a velocity greater than that would escape to infinity. When the star had exhausted its nuclear fuel, there would be nothing to maintain the outward pressure, and the star would begin to collapse because of its own gravity. As the star shrank, the gravitational field at the surface would become stronger and the escape velocity would increase. By the time the radius had got down to 10 kilometers the escape velocity would have increased to 100,000 kilometers per second, the velocity of light. After that time any light emitted from the star would not be able to escape to infinity but would be dragged back by the gravitational field. According to the special theory of relativity nothing can travel faster than light, so that if light cannot escape, nothing else can either. The result would be a black hole: a region of space-time from which it is not possible to escape to infinity. . My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus. . People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. . Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology, and the fundamental equations of physics. [Answer to question: What are the things you find most beautiful in science?] \97 Stephen W. Hawking . Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in. [Answer to question: You've said there is no reason to invoke God to light the blue touchpaper. Is our existence all down to luck?] . The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life. . The quantum theory of gravity has opened up a new possibility, in which there would be no boundary to space-time and so there would be no need to specify the behaviour at the boundary. There would be no singularities at which the laws of science broke down and no edge of space-time at which one would have to appeal to God or some new law to set the boundary conditions for space-time. One could say: 'The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary.' The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by anything outside itself. It would neither be created nor destroyed. It would just BE. . The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can\92t solve the equations, directly in the abstract. We need to use the effective theory of Darwinian natural selection of those societies most likely to survive. We assign them higher value. [Answer to question: What is the value in knowing \93Why are we here?\94] . The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. . The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological\97technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science. Clearly, no scientist better represents those advances than Albert Einstein: TIME\92s Person of the Century. . There are something like ten million million million million million million million million million million million million million million (1 with eighty zeroes after it) particles in the region of the universe that we can observe. Where did they all come from? The answer is that, in quantum theory, particles can be created out of energy in the form of particle/antiparticle pairs. But that just raises the question of where the energy came from. The answer is that the total energy of the universe is exactly zero. The matter in the universe is made out of positive energy. However, the matter is all attracting itself by gravity. Two pieces of matter that are close to each other have less energy than the same two pieces a long way apart, because you have to expend energy to separate them against the gravitational force that is pulling them together. Thus, in a sense, the gravitational field has negative energy. In the case of a universe that is approximately uniform in space, one can show that this negative gravitational energy exactly cancels the positive energy represented by the matter. So the total energy of the universe is zero. . Today scientists describe the universe in terms of two basic partial theories\97the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. They are the great intellectual achievements of the first half of this century. The general theory of relativity describes the force of gravity and the large-scale structure of the universe, that is, the structure on scales from only a few miles to as large as a million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe. Quantum mechanics, on the other hand, deals with phenomena on extremely small scales, such as a millionth of a millionth of an inch. Unfortunately, however, these two theories are known to be inconsistent with each other\97they cannot both be correct. . We should seek the greatest value of our action. [Answer to question: So here we are. What should we do?] . What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary. (17 Oct 1988) . quotes about stephen hawking . Stephen Hawking was originally a believer in the Theory of Everything but, after considering G\F6del's Theorem, concluded that one was not obtainable: "Some people will be very disappointed if there is not an ultimate theory, that can be formulated as a finite number of principles. I used to belong to that camp, but I have changed my mind."[39] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything . Do these models give a pointer to God? The steady-state universe, the Hawking model... and the infinitely oscillating model decidedly do not. One might almost regard them as models manufactured for a Society of Atheists. \97 Peter Theodore Landsberg . Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee with Jesus Christ [as] crowds of Japanese silently streamed after us, stretching out their hands to touch Hawking's wheelchair. ... The crowds had streamed after Einstein [on Einstein's visit to Japan in 1922] as they streamed after Hawking seventy years later. ... They showed exquisite choice in their heroes. ... Somehow they understood that Einstein and Hawking were not just great scientists, but great human beings. \97 Freeman Dyson | ||||||
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