quotemachine is a tumblelog.

All things unfinished or in turmoil around me are remindes that I’m still alive.

All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.

In the future, power will belong to those peoples with no origins and no authenticity. It will belong to those who, like America from the beginning, can achieve deterritorialization and weightlessness and figure out how to exploit the situation to the full extent.

Intolerance should never be disguised as “God’s way”. Intolerance, in any form, is “man’s ruin

An idea is something you have;
an ideology is something that has you.

Don’t focus on the one guy who hates you. You don’t go to the park and set your picnic down next to the only pile of dog shit.

If the “irrational” agent is outcompeting you on a systematic and predictable basis, then it is time to reconsider what you think is “rational”.

Don’t bring a knife to a math fight.

I bet when haiku was invented, old Japanese people bitched about the attention spans of the young.

Great art steals, mediocre borrows.