Favorites --------- Music: Dreamsploitation John Carrol Kirby Toro y Moi GAS Nick Drake Beach House Louis Cole Haircuts for Men Radiohead Her's De-Phazz Eluvium Saint Pepsi Broken Social Scene Mac DeMarco Ott t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力 Books: Gödel, Escher, Bach Accelerando Flowers for Algernon Ender's Game Siddhartha Unsong The Illuminatus! Trilogy Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Movies: It's Such a Beautiful Day The Matrix Baraka Blade Runner Before Sunrise Star Wars (IV) Hero (2002) Princess Mononoke End of Evangelion Dr. Strangelove Waking Life Enter The Void TV: Nirvanna the Band the Show Darkplace The IT Crowd Xavier: Renegade Angel Portlandia Freaks and Geeks Anime: Nichijō Madoka Magica Space Dandy Mushishi Berserk Death Note Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Video Games: Deus Ex N Psychonauts Return of the Obra Dinn Shining Force Tetris Braid Smash Bros. Getting Over It Receiver Superhot Cloud (2005) I Wanna Be the Guy Grow Home Outer Wilds Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Programming Heroes: John Carmack djb Rob Pike D. Richard Hipp rsc Arthur Whitney Jonathan Blow Mel ~tasfyn-partyv Writing: Raymond Smullyan - Is God a Taoist? Raymond Smullyan - Planet Without Laughter Scott Alexander - Answer to Job Joseph Weizenbaum - Science and the Compulsive Programmer Scott Czepiel - 52 Factorial Tomas Young - The Last Letter Linds Redding - The Overnight Test Steven Millhauser - In the Reign of Harad IV Eric S. Raymond - Dancing With The Gods Eliezer Yudkowsky - That Alien Message Nick Bostrom - Letter from Utopia Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Afterword David Foster Wallace - Good Old Neon Matt Lakeman - Against Dog Ownership Visual Art: Van Gogh - Self Portrait with Gray Felt Hat Gustave Doré - The Empyrean Waldemar Fink - Evening in Adelboden Franz Marc - The Foxes Quotes: Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent. - André Gide It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand until it makes you weep. - Robert Anton Wilson I really only love god as much as I love the person I love the least. - Dorothy Day if you don't become the ocean you'll be seasick every day - Leonard Cohen The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say 'No' and take the consequences. - Robert Anton Wilson Because ten billion years' time is so fragile, so ephemeral... it arouses such a bittersweet, almost heartbreaking fondness. - Now and Then, Here and There If we could feel what we are doing to the Earth, we would stop immediately. - Terence McKenna Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn. - Edna St. Vincent Millay Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him. - Rumi The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the chains that shackle the spirit... the arbitrariness of the constraint only serves to obtain precision of execution. - Igor Stravinsky Once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder. - George S. Patton I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly. - Douglas Hofstadter If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be. - Yogi Berra A lot of people pass through the thinking "I'm a guru" and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just a witness. I was just a witness. - Terence McKenna Jokes: During Yom Kippur, the rabbi is seized by a sudden wave of guilt, and prostrates himself and cries, “God, I am nothing before you!” The cantor is likewise seized by guilt, and cries, “God, I am nothing before you!” Seeing this, the janitor at the back of the synagogue prostrates himself and cries, “God, I am nothing before you!” And the rabbi nudges the cantor and whispers, “Look who thinks he’s nothing.” A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.” Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.