From caa5ed4e8d42e4c0597bd36f71c676dd1eb73f5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Cleberg Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:43:22 -0500 Subject: add quotes to garden --- content/garden/quotes.org | 176 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 176 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/garden/quotes.org (limited to 'content/garden/quotes.org') diff --git a/content/garden/quotes.org b/content/garden/quotes.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a88d61b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/garden/quotes.org @@ -0,0 +1,176 @@ +#+title: ๐ŸŒณ Quotes +#+slug: quotes +#+description: Things that made me think or feel. +#+date: [2026-03-11 Wed 01:16:35] + +* โ›ฉ๏ธ Zen + +#+begin_quote +The obstacle is the path. โ€” *Zen Proverb* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, +carry water. โ€” *Traditional* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there +are few. โ€” *Shunryu Suzuki* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself. โ€” +*Matsuo Bashล* +#+end_quote + +* ๐Ÿ’พ Cyberpunk & Sci-Fi + +#+begin_quote +The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. โ€” +*William Gibson (Neuromancer)* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +The future is already here โ€” it's just not very evenly distributed. โ€” *William +Gibson* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +The street finds its own uses for things. โ€” *William Gibson* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive. โ€” *Stewart +Brand* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. โ€” *Morpheus +(The Matrix)* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +If a ghost can coexist with a machine, then the definition of life needs to be +rewritten. โ€” *Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell)* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +The Net is vast and infinite. โ€” *Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell)* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +Humanity is just a data set. โ€” *Lain Iwakura (Serial Experiments Lain)* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +I'm not a person. I'm a program. I'm a user-created entity. โ€” *Quorra (Tron: +Legacy)* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +I don't have a soul. I'm a machine. But I have a purpose. โ€” *Alita (Alita: Battle +Angel)* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +Time not important, only life important. โ€” *Mondoshawan (The Fifth Element)* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +I donโ€™t want to survive. I want to live. โ€” *The Captain (WALL-E)* +#+end_quote + +* ๐Ÿฅฅ Minimalism & Simplicity + +#+begin_quote +Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is +nothing left to take away. โ€” *Antoine de Saint-Exupรฉry* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary +may speak. โ€” *Hans Hofmann* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. โ€” *Leonardo da Vinci* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +I make myself rich by making my wants few. โ€” *Henry David Thoreau* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. โ€” *Henry David +Thoreau* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +Clutter is nothing more than postponed decisions. โ€” *Barbara Hemphill* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +Minimalism is not a lack of something. It's simply the perfect amount of +something. โ€” *Nicholas Burroughs* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +Your home is a living space, not a storage space. โ€” *Francine Jay* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +If it's not a "hell yes," it's a "no." โ€” *Derek Sivers* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to +live your life. โ€” *Marie Kondo* +#+end_quote + +* ๐ŸŽฎ Gaming & Digital Lore + +Video games are art. It's not all 8-bit spaceships anymore - video games are a +genuine art form. + +#+begin_quote +Would you kindly? โ€” *Andrew Ryan (BioShock)* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +I used to be a jerk. A total jerk. And then I became a potato. โ€” *GLaDOS +(Portal 2)* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +To say that nothing is true, is to realize that the foundations of society are +fragile, and that we must be the shepherds of our own civilization. โ€” *Ezio +Auditore da Firenze (Assassin's Creed)* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and asks the ghosts if honor +matters. The silence is your answer. โ€” *Javik (Mass Effect 3)* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +Donโ€™t make a girl a promise... if you know you canโ€™t keep it. โ€” *Cortana (Halo 3)* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +War. War never changes. โ€” *Narrator / Ron Perlman (Fallout)* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +I'm a ghost, remember? You can't kill what you can't see. โ€” *Sam Fisher (Splinter +Cell)* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +I never asked for this. โ€” *Adam Jensen (Deus Ex: Human Revolution)* +#+end_quote + +#+begin_quote +Itโ€™s easy to forget what a sin is in the middle of a battlefield. โ€” *Solid Snake +(Metal Gear Solid)* +#+end_quote -- cgit v1.2.3