Favorite Pastime Home

Listen to music,

Read philosophy,

Eat weltschmerz for breakfast,

and Breed poetry.

some quotes:

First you got the bullet in your head,

You were keen to break your rusty cage,

But he who tries would be wasted,

And though now You are broken,

Still flying in esir like an eagle.

My heart has become capable of every form. Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi

"Feynman, I know why all electrons have the same charge and the same mass" "Why?" "Because, they are all the same electron!" John Wheeler

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them. Philip K. Dick

I wrote this (song) about two mexican bandits that I saw on the TV two weeks after I wrote the song … Townes van Zandt

That's what chess is all about.

One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one. 

Bobby Fischer (1943-2008)

"Ich hab’ mein’ Sach’ auf Nichts gestellt."  Max Stirner, Der Einzige und sein Eigentum

hoşça bak zâtına kim zübde-i âlemsin sen … Şeyh Galip

Once I, Chuang Tzu, dreamed I was a butterfly and was happy as a butterfly ...

Suddenly I awoke, and there was I, visibly Tzu.

I do not know whether it was Tzu dreaming that he was a butterfly or the butterfly dreaming that he was Tzu.

Between Tzu and the butterfly there must be some distinction. Chuang Tzu

Sayre's law: "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake. That is why academic politics are so bitter."

The academic world, I've found, has more in common with a juvenile detention center. In a juvenile detention center--and most jails, for that matter--if you're nice, you're stupid and if you're civil or sensitive, you're weak. Most faculty members aren't going anywhere, so all of the resentments and hatreds fester. from a post on internet