Hausgeist

Strong opinions loosely held

Quotes

This is a collection of quotes that resonated with and inspired me.

Your life is not about getting a fucking task done. It is about building a you.

—Hank Green

It’s important for authoritarian regimes to crush both imagination/creativity and workers’ rights, if you were wondering why AI exists.

—Ellie Marney

Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is “Nazi.” Nobody cares about their motives anymore.

They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?

—A.R. Moxon

The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true.

—Daniel Okrent