Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
Torvalds to his mother, about his sister
2000s, (2001)
“You don't think, you are being thought by thought.”
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“There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.”
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Source: Girl, Interrupted
“I never thought about going up…I don't know, don't you think that must mean something?”
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Context: It's like my having to walk down thousands and thousands of white marble stairs... and nothing but a very very blue sky, very blue, like... Yes, and I'd have to walk down them forever. I never thought about going up... I don't know, don't you think that must mean something? It never occurred to me to turn it around, I mean, why didn't I think that way? This was after I had the car accident.
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November 22, 1963; upon receiving news that President John F. Kennedy had died. (See A Thousand Days)
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“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”
Peace Pilgrim (1908–1981) American non-denominational spiritual teacher
David Lynch book Catching the Big Fish
Ideas, p. 23
Catching the Big Fish (2006)
Context: An idea is a thought. It's a thought that holds more than you think it does when you receive it. But in that first moment there is a spark. In a comic strip, if someone gets an idea, a lightbulb goes on. It happens in an instant, just as in life.
It would be great if the entire film came all at once. But it comes, for me, in fragments. That first fragment is like the Rosetta stone. It's the piece of the puzzle that indicates the rest. It's a hopeful puzzle piece.
In Blue Velvet, it was red lips, green lawns, and the song — Bobby Vinton's version of "Blue Velvet". The next thing was an ear lying in a field. And that was it.
You fall in love with the first idea, that little tiny piece. And once you've got it, the rest will come in time.
“If you are feeling good, it is because you are thinking good thoughts.”
Rhonda Byrne book The Secret
Source: The Secret
Eliezer Yudkowsky (1979) American blogger, writer, and artificial intelligence researcher
Twelve Virtues Of Rationality http://yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues <br class="br">Context: Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts. If the iron approaches your face, and you believe it is hot, and it is cool, the Way opposes your fear. If the iron approaches your face, and you believe it is cool, and it is hot, the Way opposes your calm. Evaluate your beliefs first and then arrive at your emotions. Let yourself say: “If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.”