Quotes
"Find what you love and let it kill you." — Charles Bukowski
Jim: "Mike, are you familiar with the saying 'Perfect is the enemy of good?'" Mike: "Well, 'Good Enough' is the enemy of humanity."
Tom: "Do you want a deal with the devil?" Greg: "What am I gonna do with a soul anyways? Souls are boring! Boo, souls!"
Tom: "Who has ever looked after you in this fucking family, huh? You could be heading away from the endless middle, and towards the bottom of the top." Greg: "The bottom of the top? And could I get my own... my own, like..." Tom: "Your own Greg?" Greg: "Yeah?" Tom: "You can have twenty!"
Greg: "I don't want to bring up anything to you in a way that feels like horrible, but would it be bad for me to like mention those to you?" Tom: "Are you asking if you could blackmail me?"
Kendall: "That's where heroes are born, Tom, on the battlefield." Tom: "It's also commonly where they are killed."
Roman: "What would it take for you to change your mind?" Logan: "A lobotomy."
"I think mistakes are a treasure we have to be proud of our imperfections. Of course, we have to try to improve through the mistakes, but we can learn from mistakes. The robot doesn't suffer; even if a robot makes a mistake, the robot doesn't suffer from that, while we humans can learn much more from our mistakes, and we can be proud of that. You know, I think we don't have to look for perfection. By example, we have to look for enjoying the emotional meanings of what we do. Music is just a sharing of emotions, and this robot will not understand yet." — Roberto Prosseda
"It seems comically naive of the Romans to believe that so much could be owed to a single man, but when we look at our own almost religious veneration of George Washington, it begins to make sense. In 500 years, will historians be reporting that George Washington was born of a cherry tree and had wooden teeth to prove it, that he flew over the Delaware River, defeated the British Army, and designed the Constitution all by himself? It seems crazy, but as time goes by, the subtleties of actual events are compressed into small digestible units. Horatio Gates has already been pushed from the collective consciousness and is known only to historians, but it was his victory at Saratoga, not Washington's, that led the French to support the revolution and thus ensure its success. That story, though, is too complicated. Most Americans don't even know how critical French involvement was, let alone that Washington had little to do with securing it. Washington beat the British. That is the story of the American Revolution. As the years pass, will the name of Madison be lost? Hamilton? Even the great Thomas Jefferson, whose fame is second to none, may yet fall under the juggernaut that is this mythical Washington, as he, like Romulus, becomes the answer to all questions about the founding of America." — Mike Duncan
"The opposite of free will is not determinism, it's compulsion." — Joscha Bach
The real luxuries in life: time, health, a quiet mind, slow mornings, ability to travel, rest without guilt, a good night's sleep, calm and "boring" days, meaningful conversations, home-cooked meals, people you love, people who love you back.