#wit

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#me #understand #why #withdrawn #world

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#bent #bow #cannot #frailty #human

Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes. ↗

— David Chalmers

#cognitive #compatible #consciousness #going #i

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. ↗

— John Updike

#author #because #been #choices #door

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#cultural #feel #few #few things #i

My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#am #everyone #half #i #i am

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family. ↗

— Chanakya

#causes #destroy #does #family #forest

Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook - they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing - so there's really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#advertising #already #certain #certain way #communicate

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#deeper #figuring #finding #first #got

It used to be the case, like you'd switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn't keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#case #does #easy #facebook #hard