"You are not a puppet tied to a string, that life pushes around. The real deep down you IS the whole Universe."

"You are something that the whole universe is doing, in the same way that a wave is something the whole ocean is doing, at the place you call 'here and now'."

- Alan Watts

"You do not control what will happen next.
You have no say in the next obstacle that will come your way.
But the one thing you will always have control of,
the one thing no one can ever take away from you, 
is how you react next."

- Adapted from Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning

"When a cheap laptop beats the smartest mathematicians at some tasks but even a supercomputer with 16,000 CPUs can't beat a child at others, like identifying a picture of a cat, you can tell that humans and computers are not just more or less powerful than each other. They're categorically different"

- Peter Thiel, Zero to One

"Wisdom acquisition is a moral duty. It’s not something you do just to advance in life. As a corollary to that proposition which is very important, it means that you are hooked for lifetime learning. And without lifetime learning, you people are not going to do very well. You are not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You’re going to advance in life by what you learn after you leave here. 

I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you. 

…so if civilization can progress only with an advanced method of invention, you can progress only when you learn the method of learning. 

Nothing has served me better in my long life than continuous learning."

- Charlie Munger, Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway