Erin McKean: If it works like a word, just use it.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/08/03/chillax/
Asides
John Laroche: Then one morning, I woke up and said, “Fuck fish.” I renounce fish, I will never set foot in that ocean again. And there hasn’t been a time where I have stuck so much as a toe back in that ocean.
Susan Orlean: But why?
John Laroche: Done with fish.
A buddhist monk visiting New York City goes up to a hot dog vendor and says, “Make me one with everything.”
The hot dog vendor fixes a hot dog and hands it to the monk, who pays with a $20 bill.
The vendor puts the bill in the cash box and closes it. “Excuse me, but where’s my change?” asks the buddhist monk.
The vendor responds, “Change must come from within.”
Daniel Dennett:
- The philosopher’s fundamental foible: mistaking a failure of imagination for an insight into necessity.
Epicurus in “Letter to Menoeceus”: “Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
Dawkins quoting Alun Anderson: “Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree, you can fuck off.”
Daniel Dennett:
- Repeat after me, “Every time you read it or say it, you make another copy of it in your brain.”