ohrworm’s most recent Quotables

Evidence comes in a diversity of forms. It can be anecdotal, it can be in aggregate or it can be a trend line. If you take an open-minded approach to the types of evidence you’ll accept, [you'll] adjust for their biases/problems/problems accordingly.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

You loved them because you thought they were special—but they were only special because you loved them.

It takes two people to tell the truth: one to say it, another to hear it.

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand.

.FIRST WE BUILD THE TOOLS, THEN THEY BUILD US.

What a gorgeous day! The ocean is filled with the most beautiful rainbows! #yourewelcome #bpcares

We looked at each other and that was all.
Two lives, a moment, fullness, bliss.
At the fifth floor she got out and I went on up
knowing I would never see her again,
that it was a meeting once and for all,
that if I followed her I would be like a dead man in her tracks
and that if she came back to me
it would only be from the other world.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

That which is overdesigned, too highly specific, anticipates outcome; the anticipation of outcome guarantees, if not failure, the absence of grace.

People spend so much time and effort on the internet because it gives them a sense of engagement and purpose. We’re not just killing time. We’re making meaning.

YouTube is a place for people to share their ideas. If by people you mean 13 year old girls and by ideas you mean how they love the Jonas Brothers.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

At the moment it's just a Notion, but with a bit of backing I think I could turn it into Concept, and then an Idea.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

One can resist the invasion of an army, but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.