anekavAkya (part iii)

Even more quotes ...

• freedom without awareness is disaster.
• “It is raining instructions out there; it’s raining programs; it’s raining tree-growing, fluff-spreading, algorithms. That is not a metaphor, it is the plain truth. It couldn’t be any plainer if it were raining floppy discs.” – Richard Dawkins (Chapter 5, The Blind Watchmaker)
• no one really knows what’s going on; everyone merely subscribes to the illusion of “knowledge”.
• nothing can be more frustrating than explaining one’s actions: you eventually have to explain your philosophy of life, which itself is an exercise in futility.
• reason is rather unreasonable.
• everything is fractal, or perhaps fractal is everything.
• avarice and hubris are the spawn of constipated identity.
• in the current race for planetary devastation few things make sense: music and gardening are among them.
• misapplication and over-generalization are primary symptoms of imbecility.
• resisting evolution is like refusing to learn from experience; it is the pinnacle of foolhardiness.
• moral of the story: do not raise chimpanzees, raise bonobos.
• the real quest is to find out whose imagination is reality.