- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
- An ideology, in order to gain enthusiastic support, must have a positive ideals well as a negative one; it must be FOR something as well as AGAINST something.
- We regard men as infinitely precious, possessed of unfulfilled capacities for reason, freedom, and love.
- Every man, deep down, knows he’s a worthless piece of shit.
- Corporations … only know how to talk in the soothing, humorless monotone of the mission statement, marketing brochure, and your-call-is-important-to-us busy signal. Same old tone, same old lies.
- The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, audacity and revolt.
- We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.
- Time and Space died yesterday. We are already living in the absolute, since we have already created eternal, omnipresent speed.
- Don’t trust a sane person.
- Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
- If I’m lyin’, I’m dyin’. But if you ain’t lyin’, you ain’t tryin’.
- Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of the world, unite!
- We want you to take 50 million of us as seriously as you take one reporter from The Wall Street Journal.
- Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else.
- Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!
- Vote on term limits to replace career politicians with citizen legislators.
- Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
- Beauty exists only in struggle.
- We want our people to experience new things, discover new hobbies, and generally be interesting people.
- Stop with all the negative waves. Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change? Have a little faith, baby; have a little faith.
- You’re a Genius all the time,
- Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
- Something that you feel will find its own form
- Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
- If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.
- Figure out what sucks. Don’t do that.
- To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.
- The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas.
- Always come into the scene at the last possible moment
- Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
- Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.
- Release early. Release often.
- Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.
- Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
- What the expert is tired of today, the public will be tired of tomorrow.
- If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.
- To explain responsibility to advertising men is like trying to convince an eight-year-old that sexual intercourse is more fun than a chocolate ice cream cone.
- Individuals must have the ability to shape their own experiences.
- Try never get drunk outside yr own house.
- Happiness is the real proof.