#+title: quotes
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#+description: Things that made me think or feel.
#+date: [2026-03-11 Wed 01:16:35]

* ⛩️ Zen

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The obstacle is the path.

— *Zen Proverb*
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Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood,
carry water.

— *Traditional*
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there
are few.

— *Shunryu Suzuki*
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

— *Matsuo Bashō*
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* 💾 Cyberpunk & Sci-Fi

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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

— *William Gibson (Neuromancer)*
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The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.

— *William Gibson*
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The street finds its own uses for things.

— *William Gibson*
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Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive.

— *Stewart Brand*
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There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

— *Morpheus (The Matrix)*
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If a ghost can coexist with a machine, then the definition of life needs to be
rewritten.

— *Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell)*
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The Net is vast and infinite.

— *Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell)*
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Humanity is just a data set.

— *Lain Iwakura (Serial Experiments Lain)*
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I'm not a person. I'm a program. I'm a user-created entity.

— *Quorra (Tron: Legacy)*
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I don't have a soul. I'm a machine. But I have a purpose.

— *Alita (Alita: Battle Angel)*
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Time not important, only life important.

— *Mondoshawan (The Fifth Element)*
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I don’t want to survive. I want to live.

— *The Captain (WALL-E)*
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* 🥥 Minimalism & Simplicity

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is
nothing left to take away.

— *Antoine de Saint-Exupéry*
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary
may speak.

— *Hans Hofmann*
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

— *Leonardo da Vinci*
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.

— *Henry David Thoreau*
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

— *Henry David Thoreau*
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Clutter is nothing more than postponed decisions.

— *Barbara Hemphill*
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Minimalism is not a lack of something. It's simply the perfect amount of
something.

— *Nicholas Burroughs*
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Your home is a living space, not a storage space.

— *Francine Jay*
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If it's not a "hell yes," it's a "no."

— *Derek Sivers*
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The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to
live your life.

— *Marie Kondo*
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* 🎮 Gaming & Digital Lore

Video games are art. It's not all 8-bit spaceships anymore - video games are a
genuine art form.

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Would you kindly?

— *Andrew Ryan (BioShock)*
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I used to be a jerk. A total jerk. And then I became a potato.

— *GLaDOS (Portal 2)*
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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.

— *Ezio Auditore da Firenze (Assassin's Creed)*
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Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and asks the ghosts if honor
matters. The silence is your answer.

— *Javik (Mass Effect 3)*
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Don’t make a girl a promise... if you know you can’t keep it.

— *Cortana (Halo 3)*
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War. War never changes.

— *Narrator / Ron Perlman (Fallout)*
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I'm a ghost, remember? You can't kill what you can't see.

— *Sam Fisher (Splinter Cell)*
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I never asked for this.

— *Adam Jensen (Deus Ex: Human Revolution)*
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It’s easy to forget what a sin is in the middle of a battlefield.

— *Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid)*
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