There's another insanity too. Looking at the mediocre and boring, emulating them, and expecting spectacular results—that's insanity too. Spend enough time with dusty, tie-wearing old men and you start looking and acting like them. What a terrible death sentence.
Whenever possible, surround yourself by the strange, exceptional, bright, and spectacular. If that's what you admire and seek to become, anyway; if your goal is to float by under the radar and die a comfortable and uneventful death, then by all means surround yourself with accountants.
In some ways, it's a curse; this desire to excel, to prove, to exist. It's my desperate struggle to scrawl a few feeble lines on the pages on history. I don't need my name, I don't need recognition—I just want vindication.
That I, my ideas, did something to contribute to humanity. My family is humanity.There's a popular saying, supposedly by Einstein: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results—that's insanity.
There's another insanity too. Looking at the mediocre and boring, emulating them, and expecting spectacular results—that's insanity too. Spend enough time with dusty, tie-wearing old men and you start looking and acting like them. What a terrible death sentence.
Whenever possible, surround yourself by the strange, exceptional, bright, and spectacular. If that's what you admire and seek to become, anyway; if your goal is to float by under the radar and die a comfortable and uneventful death, then by all means surround yourself with accountants.
In some ways, it's a curse; this desire to excel, to prove, to exist. It's my desperate struggle to scrawl a few feeble lines on the pages on history. I don't need my name, I don't need recognition—I just want vindication.
That I, my ideas, did something to contribute to humanity. My family is humanity.
