Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
-John F Kennedy

Our brain is made up of pieces, brain cells that we share with all other animals. With monkeys, with mice, and even sea slugs. But if you put them together in a particular network, what you get is the capacity to write Romeo and Juliet.
-Rebecca Saxe

There’s a little truth behind every “just kidding”, a little curiosity behind every “just wondering”, a little knowledge behind every “I don’t know”, and a little emotion behind every “I don’t care”.
-Unknown

Statistics mean nothing to the individual.
-Unknown

Let us walk through my most recent purchase. I strolled into the store, located the CD I was after, paid for it in cash and left. At no stage was I asked to sign a licensing agreement - not even a post-sale agreement like those for software. It was a simple transaction of cash for a physical product.

”No,” cries the music industry, ”you are bound by the licensing agreement that you did not sign and that we cannot produce for inspection.”

Fine - let’s suppose I now have a licence for personal use applying to all the CDs I own. I should be able to take advantage of that. A CD I bought 10 years ago now has a scratch down the middle so that five of the 10 songs refuse to play. Luckily for me, this problem is solely with the physical medium. After all, my licence for personal use should allow me to reacquire ”my” content, especially since it is digital data and can be reproduced an unlimited number of times at virtually no cost.

”No,” cries the music industry, ”you bought a product, not a licence. You are not entitled to a free replacement, you need to buy it all over again. And when you do, you will be covered by another identical licence. Until something happens to this new physical medium.” Gabriel Nijmeh

What is dangerous is when delayed gratification becomes an excuse for not living the life you want.
-Chris Guillebeau

Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.
-Unknown

When Jesus said, “Love your enemies”, I think he probably meant don’t kill them.
-Linda K. Williams

Be careful to not be caught up bettering your own life, thinking you’re young and this is your chance to become the next best thing, and missing out on everything going on around you. Opportunities arise sometimes in not just bettering your life, but making part of your life understanding and bettering the lives of others.

Talk to people and understand industries you are not familiar with, maybe stuff you have never thought of being interested in could turn out to be an amazing untapped opportunity.

Why wait to be dragged out of the world you’ve put yourself into? There is absolutely no excuse for being too young and too busy to step out of your world to see opportunities to be rewarded outside of self achievement.

Stop narrowing your entire world to chasing your ideas and monetization plans, and observe the world outside of your own. Learn about the way some things are, help other people in even the smallest of ways be able to live in the first place, and you will quite possibly find the reward you’ve always wanted, maybe in a different form or context, but equally fulfilling.

-Arthur Chang

You’ll never be able to fly if you can’t let go
-Unknown