Quote | The bed of Procrustes

Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse.

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For so many, instead of looking for “cause of death” when they expire, we should be looking for “cause of life” when they are still around.¹

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Social networks present information about what people like; more informative, if, instead, they described what they don’t like.

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We are satisfied with natural (or old) objects like vistas or classical paintings but insatiable with technologies, amplifying small improvements in versions, obsessed about 2.0, caught in a mental treadmill.

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You exist if and only if your conversation (or writings) cannot be easily reconstructed with clips from other conversations.

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Real life (vita beata) is when your choices correspond to your duties.

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