diff --git a/.DS_Store b/.DS_Store index 7148c01..15608e5 100644 Binary files a/.DS_Store and b/.DS_Store differ diff --git a/Quotes/.DS_Store b/Quotes/.DS_Store deleted file mode 100644 index 5008ddf..0000000 Binary files a/Quotes/.DS_Store and /dev/null differ diff --git a/Quotes/adrian-tan.md b/Quotes/adrian-tan.md deleted file mode 100644 index c0cf0d8..0000000 --- a/Quotes/adrian-tan.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ -# Adrian Tan - -> "I have nothing against average people. But no one should aspire to be them." - -> "It takes great maturity to appreciate the value of silence." diff --git a/Quotes/albert-camus.md b/Quotes/albert-camus.md deleted file mode 100644 index e329d94..0000000 --- a/Quotes/albert-camus.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -# Albert Camus - -> "Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies." diff --git a/Quotes/allen-ginsberg.md b/Quotes/allen-ginsberg.md deleted file mode 100644 index fbd37a0..0000000 --- a/Quotes/allen-ginsberg.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -# Allen Ginsberg - -> "Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture." diff --git a/Quotes/carl-sagan.md b/Quotes/carl-sagan.md deleted file mode 100644 index 84d70f7..0000000 --- a/Quotes/carl-sagan.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +0,0 @@ -# Carl Sagan - -> "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence." - Cosmos - -> "We are the custodians of life's meaning." - -> "Cannot truth defend itself in its confrontation with error?” - -> “A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” - Cosmos, Ep. 11 - -> “If we crave cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.” - -> “Each victory is only a prelude to another." - -> “If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.” - -> “For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” (from Samiur & Tess’s wooden block) - -> "every question is a cry to understand the world” - -> [On diversity in Star Wars](https://twitter.com/OmanReagan/status/967492148445638656) - -> "Knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better, by far to embrace the hard truth, than a reassuring fable.Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Our common sense intuitions can be mistaken. Our preferences don't count. We do not live in a privileged reference frame.If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.” - -> "If it take a little myth and ritual to get us through a night that seems endless, who among us cannot sympathize and understand?” - -> "We're Johnny-come-latelies; we live in the cosmic boondocks; we emerged from microbes in muck; apes are our cousins; our thoughts and feelings are not fully under our own control; and, on top of all this, we're making a mess of our planet, and becoming a danger to ourselves.” - -> “If we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.” ([source](https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/12/20/carl-sagan-varieties-of-scientific-experience/)) diff --git a/Quotes/christopher-hitchens.md b/Quotes/christopher-hitchens.md deleted file mode 100644 index 0905e3c..0000000 --- a/Quotes/christopher-hitchens.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -Christopher Hitchens - -> "The people who must never have power are the humorless." diff --git a/Quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky.md b/Quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky.md deleted file mode 100644 index 5e46e3d..0000000 --- a/Quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -# Fyodor Dostoyevsky - -> “If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.” diff --git a/Quotes/george-bernard-shaw.md b/Quotes/george-bernard-shaw.md deleted file mode 100644 index c01573e..0000000 --- a/Quotes/george-bernard-shaw.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ -# George Bernard Shaw - -> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - -> “Activity is the only road to knowledge.” diff --git a/Quotes/george-washington.md b/Quotes/george-washington.md deleted file mode 100644 index af66cbd..0000000 --- a/Quotes/george-washington.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -# George Washington - -> "Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." diff --git a/Quotes/henry-david-thoreau.md b/Quotes/henry-david-thoreau.md deleted file mode 100644 index 87278cd..0000000 --- a/Quotes/henry-david-thoreau.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ -# Henry David Thoreau - -> "Do not seek expressions, seek thoughts to be expressed.” - -> "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." diff --git a/Quotes/isaac-asimov.md b/Quotes/isaac-asimov.md deleted file mode 100644 index 1f0af87..0000000 --- a/Quotes/isaac-asimov.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ -# Isaac Asimov - -> "Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding it's way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - -> "Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests." (The End of Eternity, pg. 246) diff --git a/Quotes/isaiah-berlin.md b/Quotes/isaiah-berlin.md deleted file mode 100644 index 91e862d..0000000 --- a/Quotes/isaiah-berlin.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -# Isaiah Berlin - -> "To understand is to perceive patterns." diff --git a/Quotes/john-lewis-gaddis.md b/Quotes/john-lewis-gaddis.md deleted file mode 100644 index 21876d9..0000000 --- a/Quotes/john-lewis-gaddis.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -# John Lewis Gaddis - -> "It's part of growing up to learn that there are competing versions of the truth, and that you yourself must choose which to embrace." diff --git a/Quotes/john-muir-md b/Quotes/john-muir-md deleted file mode 100644 index 2a562b2..0000000 --- a/Quotes/john-muir-md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -# John Muir - -> "Keep close to nature's heart…and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." diff --git a/Quotes/kevin-kelly.md b/Quotes/kevin-kelly.md deleted file mode 100644 index 8c6d080..0000000 --- a/Quotes/kevin-kelly.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ -# Kevin Kelly - -> "A single thread of self-generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the techies together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made…the arc of complexity and the open-ended creation int he last four billion years is nothing compared to what lies ahead." - -> "When copies are super abundant, they become worthless. When copies are super abundant, stuff which can't be copied becomes scarce and valuable." -[Better Than Free](https://www.edge.org/conversation/better-than-free), 2008 - -> Neal Stephenson [laments](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TE0n_5qPmRM): “I saw the best minds of my generation… writing spam filters” he should not give up. It’s not that different that the best minds of a former generation designing oil filters. These are the unglamorous but essential tasks in constructing a whole new infrastructure. -[The Post-Productive Economy](https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-post-produc/), 2013 diff --git a/Quotes/margaret-mead.md b/Quotes/margaret-mead.md deleted file mode 100644 index 102d042..0000000 --- a/Quotes/margaret-mead.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -# Margaret Mead - -> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." diff --git a/Quotes/mark-twain.md b/Quotes/mark-twain.md deleted file mode 100644 index 2b60662..0000000 --- a/Quotes/mark-twain.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ -# Mark Twain - -> “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” - -> “The two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you figure out why." diff --git a/Quotes/michael-lewis.md b/Quotes/michael-lewis.md deleted file mode 100644 index eeaf307..0000000 --- a/Quotes/michael-lewis.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -# Michael Lewis - -> "By its nature, the Internet undermines anyone whose status depends on privileged access to information." diff --git a/Quotes/r-g-collingwood.md b/Quotes/r-g-collingwood.md deleted file mode 100644 index c44c1e9..0000000 --- a/Quotes/r-g-collingwood.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,7 +0,0 @@ -# R.G. Collingwood - -[Robin George Collingwood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._G._Collingwood) - -> "The historian's business is to know the past, not to know the future, and whenever historians claim to be able to determine the future in advance of its happening, we may know with certainty that something has gone wrong with their fundamental conception of history." - -> From John Lewis Gaddis's The Landscape of History (63): "Anyone seeking to establish "the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature," Collingwood warns, is bound to have mistaken "the transient conditions of a certain historical age for the permanent conditions of human life." diff --git a/Quotes/randall-munroe.md b/Quotes/randall-munroe.md deleted file mode 100644 index 9172a41..0000000 --- a/Quotes/randall-munroe.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -# Randall Munroe - -> "The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space - each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision." diff --git a/Quotes/roman-krznaric.md b/Quotes/roman-krznaric.md deleted file mode 100644 index 3fa126a..0000000 --- a/Quotes/roman-krznaric.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -# Roman Krznaric - -> "We have entered a new age of fulfillment, in which the great dream is to trade up from money to meaning."