Joan Didion Quote

If you put yourself in the emotion that you want from others, you are more likely to receive it.

Home is not a place. Home is security, predictability, reliability, dependability, safety, permanence combined together.

Life becomes boring when things fall in place the way you intended!

Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go.

In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.

As Plato:) There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must...

And once again, work is providing us with a comforting sense of normalcy-living and working inside of coding's predictably segmented time/space. Simply grinding away at something makes life feel stabl...

If science could comprehend all phenomena so that eventually in a thoroughly rational society human beings became as predictable as cogs in a machine, then man, driven by this need to know and assert...

Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for...

Something as superfluous as play is also an essential feature of our consciousness. If you ask children why they like to play, they will say, Because it's fun. But that invites the next question: What...