Pema Chödrön:
If you’re invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.
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The title of this Feb. 13, 2024 Fortune article by Arianna Ross Royle says it all: If Bill Gates could ask a time traveler anything, he’d want to know whether AI eventually doomed or helped humanity
It’s not like the end goal is less plastics or even a certain temperature,” he said. “It’s are humans thriving?
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David Letterman, speaking with Jerry Seinfeld in his COMEDIANS IN CARS GETTING COFFEE BOOK, echoing Elizabeth Gilbert and how ideas have their own imperative:
If I had an idea that is a driver, it’s a good idea, the idea says, “Get in the car.” And I’m like, “Where am I going?” And the idea says, “I don’t know, but don’t worry. I’m driving.” And then you just get there.
Jerry: That is great. The idea’s driving. And you’re in the passenger seat or in the back seat?
Dave: Sometimes I’m shotgun, but sometimes I’m in the f*cking trunk. The idea takes you where it wants to go.
Also Brian Regan:
I always say that the things you remember in life are the things that happen right after you had butterflies.
And Jerry Seinfeld after watching the George Harrison documentary:
Well, it starts with one of his Krishna things on the screen: “You have always been here and you will always be here.” I had never thought of that, but I instantly believed it. Like this is—I don’t want to get all Hindu on you—but this is this life. You picked it. There will be others. There were others before this. We’re just moving through different things. You were here to do a certain thing, which I can tell you right now that you did. You accomplished what you set out to do here. And then you’ll go back up there, back into the pool, and then you’ll pick another one, and you’ll do something else.
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From “Ode, Inscribed to William H. Channing” by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882):
Things are in the saddle and ride mankind.
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Kara Swisher, in an interview for her new Burn Book, speaking about Elon Musk and his idea of getting us to Mars:
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I believe we should be a multi-planet species, too, because if we’re going to rely on this planet, we’re f*cked.
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Author Brian Klaas in his new book, Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters-
The tapestry of life is woven with a magical sort of thread, one that grows longer the more you unspool it. Every present moment is created with seemingly unrelated strands that stretch far into the distant past…The truth is, as Martin Luther King Jr. wrote in his letter from a Birmingham jail, “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.”
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