February 15, 2012
“We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”

— C.S. Lewis

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at 10:34 am
October 10, 2011
“One of my role models is Bob Dylan. As I grew up, I learned the lyrics to all his songs and watched him never stand still. If you look at the artists, if they get really good, it always occurs to them at some point that they can do this one thing for the rest of their lives, and they can be really successful to the outside world but not really be successful to themselves. That’s the moment that an artist really decides who he or she is. If they keep on risking failure, they’re still artists. Dylan and Picasso were always risking failure. This Apple thing is that way for me. I don’t want to fail, of course. But even though I didn’t know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn’t really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I’ve tried my best.”

Steve Jobs (CNNMoney/Fortune, November 9, 1998)

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at 10:30 am
June 2, 2011
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

— C.S. Lewis (from Four Loves, which I should begin reading in full.)

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at 2:56 pm
August 26, 2010
“Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.”

— C.S. Lewis (Currently reading A Grief Observed)

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at 9:31 am
July 31, 2010
What haunts me

“It is your business to see that the patient never thinks of the present fear as his appointed cross, but only of the things is he is afraid of.” - Screwtape to Wormwood, sixth letter; The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

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at 8:36 pm
April 6, 2009
(Mad world, indeed)

“To think that the spectre you see is an illusion does not rob him of his terrors: it simply adds the further terror of madness itself - and then on top of that the horrible surmise that those whom the rest call mad have, all along, been the only people who see the world as it really is.” - C.S. Lewis

(Currently reading Lewis’ Perelandra)

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at 1:35 pm