Book excerpts

2021-11-16 23:58:01 Open / Comment

2021-11-16 23:57:01 "You're just a sham of the real Kurono!"

"Ah, but can you really declare me just a sham? I'm the people's perception of him, given form. I'm the Kurono everyone else knows.
It doesn't matter if I replace him, the only people who will care about that stuff are the ones close to him...the imitation just has to beat the original.
We live in a world where victory forgives all.
Victory's what matters. If I win, I'll become the original. "

Atsushi Ohkubo, Fire Force Open / Comment

2021-11-05 12:10:26 https://t.me/book_excerpts/42 Open / Comment

2021-11-03 10:03:47 Open / Comment

2021-11-03 09:50:53 We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.

Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science Open / Comment

2021-10-20 14:46:01 Open / Comment

2021-10-20 14:45:05 I've wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it and yet we didn't see it. Or rather we were trained not to see it. Conned, perhaps, into thinking that the real action was metropolitan and all this was just boring hinterland. It was a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I'm looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Open / Comment

2021-10-18 07:02:01 Open / Comment

2021-10-18 07:01:01 What I would like to do is use the time that is coming now to talk about some things that have come to mind. We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone. Now that we do have some time, and know it, I would like to use the time to talk in some depth about things that seem important.

Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Open / Comment

2021-10-16 10:24:01 Open / Comment