“No matter how big your problems are, how dramatic your life is, the Earth will keep on turning, so relax.”
“Is nothing somewhere?”
“To develop, we must change. Stability will take us nowhere, and entropy will come sooner than later.”
“Happiness is not getting what you want, it is wanting what you get”
“The more we know, the better we will take our place in our world”
“Success is not about not making mistakes, it is about learning from them”
“You can have the same notes, but the melody will change with their arrangement”
“We <are/have> potential”
“Everything computes, but only we can compute everything”
“The present is pregnant with possibilities”
“If you cannot change the bits, you can always change their meaning”
“The universe does not tend to entropy. The universe tends to balance.”
“Can a computer calculating a winning chess move be distinguished physically from the same computer calculating noise with the same distribution?”
“Not everything has to be nice in order to be great”
“Is complexity to networks what computation is to information? (first process, second substrate)”
“If things are impermanent, why do we cling on to them?”
“An agent acts on its environment. The environment affects the agent. All situated agents have karma.”
“Science is a social enterprise.”
“The deepest truths are obvious”
“Ignorance creates suffering, knowledge frees minds.” #NextGenSci
“If one knows all relevant interactions, you can only act in the best possible way.”
“Life is about balance. We strive to find Pareto optimality amongst hundreds of variables, but our fitness landscapes are unique.”
“Information has infinite potential because meaning is arbitrary.”
“We will all die, but the effects of our actions will last” //reading Bodhissattvacharyavatara
“Space is to matter what mind is to information”
“You have much higher chances of finding joy for others than joy for yourself. It is simply a matter of probability. So if you enjoy the joy of others, you are almost there.”
“If we focus on HOW things are, we might enjoy or suffer. If we focus on the fact that things ARE, there is only joy.”
“If we focus on HOW, we depend on circumstances. If we focus on WHAT, we are liberated. If we focus on WHAT CAN BE, we stop suffering.”
“Sometimes the best is to assume the worst.”
“Without the unfortunate events in my life, I wouldn't be who I am. So they were fortunate.”
“Limits are just circumstances. Inherently, there are none.”
“The goal is the path, not the goal”
“Nothing is isolated, everything is related”
“Science is a bit overrated. Not only we will never know everything. We will never completely agree about anything.”
“What reflects on a mirror?
Whatever we can see.
What refects on a mind?
Whatever we can think. Infinite potential.”
“God is a placebo.”
“In theory, our mind is a universal computer: it can calculate any computable function. In practice, it can do much more.”
“I am interactions”
“Buddhism is a practice to depend less on outer conditions.”
“There is always a rainbow. You only need the appropriate perspective.”
*“The main problem is that we speak about epistemology thinking we are dealing with ontology. In other words, we believe things are as we believe they are.”
“The more I meditate, the more I perceive phenomena in their potential state, rathen than in an arbitrary “actual” state. (It is arbitrary because it depends on how one perceives it).”
“No pain is permanent”
“Naturally, we try to avoid difficult situations. However, these have the highest learning potential. It is up to us to use the opportunity, or to gloat in out suffering.”
“The difference between perseverance and stubbornness lies on whether we sympathize or not with what is repeated.”
“All difficulties can be teachings. But not all teachings are worth the difficulties.”
“Trying to save the world is usually not a good business”
“The problem with causality (and most formal logics and most of A.I.) is that you assume complete information. And in many cases, you don’t have it inherently due to complexity: information has not been produced yet.”
“There is a very small difference between the potential and the actual. But it can make all the difference.”
“Force yourself not to force yourself” //oblígate a no obligarte
“What we think is important is not so important and what we think is futile is not so futile.” //Lo que creemos importante no es tan importante y lo que creemos irrelevante no es tan irrelevante.
*“Impermanence is permanent”
“Impermanence is permanent”
“Waves destroy sand castles, but not sand itself.”
“Everything is an expression of the nature of mind, so anything can be used as a path to enlightenment, which is precisely recognizing the nature of mind.”
*“At the end, there are only interactions.”
“At the end, there are only interactions.”
“Genius is not in being right all the time (you can’t), but in asking questions all the time”
“In the short term, the easiest is not always the best. But in the long run, the best is always the easiest”
*“A universal truth? Maybe”
“A universal truth? Maybe”
“I am information potential”
“Instead of being embittered because life has not given you what savage capitalism promised, you could decide to have more satisfactory long-term goals. One could be helping others. The more are benefited, it is more motivating.”
“Quality eventually changes with quantity.”
“Successful people are not those that never fall, but those stubborn enough to keep on standing up. Enjoy your failures, they are part of your path to success.”
“Enlightenment is an infinite game”
“The problem is not completeness, but a finite set of axioms.”
“There are elements and materials that do not exist in nature. They do not violate any natural law, but you cannot explain their creation using only natural laws.”
“Consciousness is not a thing, it is a relation”
“Ontology is an oxymoron. It tries to study phenomena independently of an observer, but the moment one names something, it is already (partly) subjective.”
“There are infinite ways of doing things. And many more ways of screwing them up.”
“Perfection comes not when there are no flaws, but when one accepts things as they are.”
“I define the universe and the universe defines me. The separation is artificial.”
“We are only thermodynamic fluctuations... loving thermodynamic fluctuations”
“All scales are relevant ”
“Meaning is arbitrary ”
“We should value people by their abilities, not by their circumstances.”
“For a broad understanding of our universe, science should seek laws that apply at all scales, not only at the “fundamental” scale.”
“The world is what you make of it.”
“Information is real in the sense that it has a causal influence over matter and energy.” E.g. war
“The moment science becomes ideological, it stops being scientific.”
“Downward causation is all around and within us. Our genes depend on our cells. Our cells depend on our body. We depend on our society. Our species depends on our biosphere. Isolation means death.”
“There will be sufferings and there will be successes. How much of each is a daily struggle.”
“Even if there were a finite number of particles in our universe, the potential information of such universe would be infinite. On the one hand, interactions generate novel information at multiple scales. On the other hand, observers can give different meanings to the same information.”
“Formal systems are inconsistent, incomplete, and undecidable, but most of our formal models attempt to be consistent, complete, and decidable.”
“Natural selection weeds out the incompetence in most species. But our societies have managed not only to select for incompetence, we thrive on incompetence.”
“Karma is a generalization of Newton’s 3rd law”
“The purpose of an argument is not to show that I’m right and that you’re wrong, but to reach and agreement.”
“People who think that some persons are better than others (independently of a context) have not known enough persons.”
“Not knowing is not an excuse for not acting”
“Buddhas are everywhere, just like prime numbers”
“It is more satisfying to be glad by the success of others than to be successful, although sometimes the effort for the former is greater than the one required to achieve the latter.”
“Things come together and separate all the time. It is easier to describe separation (entropy increase). Only now we are developing the tools to understand self-organization.”
“Most “good ideas” are actually “bad ideas yet to be tested”.”
“A plastic bottle follows the laws of physics, but physics is not enough to describe how it arose in the universe. You need biology, sociology, economics... and how could you without downward causation?” (after listening Sara I. Walker and Lee Cronin on Lex Fridman's podcast)
“The explanations we make about the world are epistemology, not ontology” (listening to Gödel’s philosophy)
“Aristotelean logic is one of the most powerful tools of our species... and also one of our greatest obstacles...”
“So many people confuse freedom with disrespect”
“The world is neither random nor clockwork.”
“I interact, therefore I am”
“I do have data and I do have doubts”
“Most of all the potential chemical reactions in the universe will never take place.”
“A fine teacher is ready to learn from everyone.”
“At a low scale, everything is unique. At a high scale, everything is.”
“Seeking “success” will breed constant dissatisfaction (if you don’t reach a goal, you suffer; and if you do, you’ll seek a new goal) and envy (from you if you don’t succeed, from others if you do).” (After listening to Shamarpa’s Path to Awakening, ch. 1)
“You can find some happiness outside yourself. You can find great happiness inside yourself. You can find ultimate happiness dissolving your self.”
“Consider the best moment in your life. You can constantly lament that you will never experience it again. Or you can continuously marvel at the amazing world that allowed you to experience it. What do you choose?”
“If you manage to dissolve your ego, then there is nothing left that can be hurt.”
“We receive most when we give.”
“If you never become attached, you won't have to let go.”
“If you want to find a cause for sorrow, you will find it. Plenty of them around. If you want to find a cause for bliss, you will also find it. They are everywhere.”
“Our society is constantly rushing to relax.”
“All of us will be dead soon. We might as well be kind to each other.”
“People are like jigsaw puzzle pieces. Most of them don’t match.”
“Buddhism is not for understanding the world, but to experience it and accept it as it is.”
“Perception is not about seeing truth, it's about having kids”. -Donald Hoffman
“All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.” -Blaise Pascal
“The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist” - Erwin Schrödinger
“The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relations among things; outside these relations there is no reality knowable.” -Henri Poincaré
“You never cure structural defects. The system corrects itself by collapsing” -Nassim N. Taleb. Skin in the Game.
“A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth” -Albert Einstein
“Life exists in doing” -Philip Ball. How to grow a human.
“If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.” —Alan M. Turing
“Description must be nonlinear. Prediction must be linear.” —Alan M. Turing
"It doesn't matter how we call them, as long as we know what we are speaking about" —Michael Batty
“Physicists tend to look at typical values, we mathematicians tend to look at extreme values” —László Lovász
“Life is information propagating through matter” —Sara Imari Walker
“Any problem a human mind can pose, it can solve” —Kurt Gödel
"Principles You can't say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction." — Richard Feynman
“All simple systems look similar one to the other and each complex system is complex in its own way. I mean it is like the start of Anna Karenina.” —Giorgio Parisi
“Those who believe that what appears is real
Are as stupid as cows.
Those who believe emptiness is real
Are even stupider.” -Saraha
“What we call relative has to do with cause and effect, that which happens and the way things happen. What we call absolute is the nature of what happens” -Hannah Nydahl
“Pedantry and bureaucracy — symptoms of an unintelligent respect for the past — are at present real dangers, but, once their genesis is understood, they can be made to vanish” -J. D. Bernal (1929)
“The dangers to the whole structure of humanity and its successors will not decrease as their wisdom increases, because, knowing more and wanting more they will dare more, and in daring will risk their own destruction. But this daring, this experimentation, is really the essential quality of life” -J. D. Bernal (1929)
“You cannot know another person unless you perceive with superknowledge. So do not criticize others” -Padmasambhava
“Enlightenment is the complete acceptance of change.” 17th Karmapa
“Mind is intelligent space” -Lama Ole Nydahl //we all have the same mind
“The mind is what we fill it with” -Lama Ole Nydahl
“There is no such thing as a thing.” -John Dupré
“Wisdom never puts enmity anywhere” -Aldous Huxley, 'Island'
“People usually think that progress consists in the increase of knowledge, in the improvement of life, but that isn't so. Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life. The truth is always accessible to a man… because a man's soul is a divine spark, the truth itself. It's only a matter of removing from this divine spark, everything that obscures it. Progress consists, not in the increase of truth, but in freeing it from its wrappings. The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold.” -Leo Tolstoy
“The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learnt at school.” -Haruki Murakami
“Dystopias, of course, always make for better stories than utopias” -Philip Bal
“With meaningless questions, it’s hard (or impossible) to determine logically if an answer is correct or not.” — First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami
“I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed.” —William Shakespeare
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Gullibility is what makes the world go round” — Malcom Gladwell
“Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.” —Leo Tolstoy
“Investors are educated gamblers” -Singaporean taxi drive
“When everything is connected to everything else, everything matters” -Bruce Mau
“People who are inspiring are inspired” -John Christopherson
“The real balance is accepting change as change” -H. H. Karmapa XVIIth Trinley Thaye Dorje
“Don’t limit your challenges, challenge your limits.” -Lama Ole Nydahl?
“La verdadera felicidad no depende de lo que tomamos del mundo, sino de lo que llevamos al mundo” -Tony Karam
“We too are capable of extraordinary love, unconditional love. We too are capable of extraordinary compassion, limitless compassion. We too are capable of being an example, to inspire countless beings.” -H. H. Karmapa XVIIth Trinley Thaye Dorje
“Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.” -Bono
“Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.” -Lewis Mumford
“Whatever you do, it won't be enough. Try anyway” -Barack Obama
“Sometimes, you are forced to being brainless” -Werner Herzog
“Wisdom is making others happy” -Oleg Torsunov.
“The metaphor is what we know” -Godfrey Reggio
“Failure is the information you need to get where you’re going” -Rick Rubin
“When you do things, then obstacles will come and you can go through them. Obstacles are a sign of success.” —XVI Karmapa