“I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: First Part
A thousand excuses to hide behind, Sleeping through the voices blind, Crack the Writer’s Block and find, All the Gems inside
“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
-Ayn Rand
“Amicus Plato amicus Aristoteles magis amica verita.”
(Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.)
-Sir Isaac Newton
“Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
Chrono Trigger magnum opus: addressing questions of interpretation, authorial intent, hype/nostalgia, if the GOAT really exists.
“Know what? I thought of you the other day, and it filled me with warm,…
“In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.”
-Dante Alighieri, Inferno
“Above all, video games are meant to be just one thing: Fun for everyone.”
-Satoru Iwata
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
-André Gide, Autumn Leaves
“We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.”
-Dave Ramsey
“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.”
-H.P. Lovecraft
Rome never looks where she treads.
Always her heavy hooves fall
On our stomachs, our hearts or our heads;
And Rome never heeds when we bawl.
Her sentries pass on—that is all,
And we gather behind them in hordes,
And plot to reconquer the Wall,
With only our tongues for our swords.
We are the Little Folk—we!
Too little to love or to hate.
Leave us alone and you’ll see
How we can drag down the State!
We are the worm in the wood!
We are the rot at the root!
We are the taint in the blood!
We are the thorn in the foot!
Mistletoe killing an oak—
Rats gnawing cables in two—
Moths making holes in a cloak—
How they must love what they do!
Yes—and we Little Folk too,
We are busy as they—
Working our works out of view—
Watch, and you’ll see it some day!
No indeed! We are not strong,
But we know Peoples that are.
Yes, and we’ll guide them along
To smash and destroy you in War!
We shall be slaves just the same?
Yes, we have always been slaves,
But you—you will die of the shame,
And then we shall dance on your graves!
-Rudyard Kipling, A Pict Song
“Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course – the distance between your ears.”
-Bobby Jones
“Come tuhgethaaaa… right naaahoooww…. over Final Fantasy.” *UPDATE: we’re no longer accepting new…
“Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn’t saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.”
-Aaron Belz
“It wasn’t like there was some obvious change. Actually, the problem was more a lack of change. Nothing about her had changed – the way she spoke, her clothes, the topics she chose to talk about, her opinions – they were all the same as before. Their relationship was like a pendulum gradually grinding to a halt, and he felt out of synch.”
–Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Hey, listen, NPCs! Happy October and happy anniversary to the love of my life,…
“When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the separate hemispheres.”
-Roger Wolcott Sperry
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.”
-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
“I don’t care what happens to them, but unlike you, I was at least trying to save humanity.”
-Reza, Angels With Scaly Wings
“Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.”
-Desmond Tutu
