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A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.
Stock prices turn people's heads. When prices are high, we treat a company like gods, and if they drop, we treat them as fools.
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we’d all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.
There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.
Only God has no limits (except those he voluntarily imposes on himself). The mantra "no limits" is actually a call to idolatry.
Whatever a person's ultimate concern may be, it will have an enormous influence on everything else the person does or believes.
God cursed those who are the sons of Israel, through David and Jesus, the son of Mary. Those people, God made monkeys and pigs.
Our reverence for workaholism has produced corporate leaders who believe they don't need sleep, and neither should anyone else.
I don't define myself as autistic first. I don't want to be a professional autistic. I think it's important to have a real job.
For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, “Can I believe this?”, but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, “Must I believe this?
Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.
Sometimes when a philosopher's views are widely rejected by the world, the fault is not with the philosopher but with the world.
Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.
With the Google Brain project, we made the decision to build deep learning processes on top of Google's existing infrastructure.
But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.
I wasn't part of John Kennedy's vision of the world, or Lyndon Johnson's. I thought of them as anti-Communist imperial monsters.
When people are in severe pain, there's an expression, you're a "pain person," and what that means is that nothing else matters.
Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.
I've worked in so many areas -- I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been.
Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.
All renewables, much as I love them, are diffuse. They all have a small power per unit area, and we have to live with that fact.
I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.
Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.
Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.
Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.
Does veganism require a “sacrifice”? Yes. It requires that you give up that which you never had any right to in the first place.
I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.
God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people
The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience.
No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.
Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.
To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.
Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise.
Border enforcement coupled with employer sanctions and threatening employers who hire immigration law violators is insufficient.
The brain processes information using 100,000 times less energy than we do right now with this computer technology that we have.
Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.
I'm really puzzled by why people in societies find it difficult to work collaboratively together with other people in societies.
Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one’s skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun.
No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.
Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.
Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.
The greatest compliment is I am accused of being a Dem leftie and a Republican righty. I am a pragmatist. I call it as I see it.
In the end, it will just melt away quite suddenly. It might not be as early as 2013 but it will be soon, much earlier than 2040.
Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible.
If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'
One key factor in the downward spiral in our educational system is that there is too much stroking and too little real feedback.