The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it

Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few.

Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.

it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free will with determinism. The system is deterministic, but you can’t say what it’s going to do next.

The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.

IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern.

Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the

If your life was complete, you'd be dead.

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.

[people] very fact that it's decentralized makes it literally impossible to try to hack or rig the results.

Integrity means having the courage to do what is right, and what is aligned with your values, no matter the situation.

[Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are.

Even at my lowest I was sittin on my high stool.

If you have a sorrow that you cannot tell to anyone, you can go to our Father in Heaven.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

If I can learn how to manage myself, why would I give you 20 percent and people are looking for me? It just doesn't make sense.