Lightstone's Quotes

#1. Lightstone's Convolution Principle: The concurrent development of multiple features operating on intersecting componentry will take longer to complete than the sum of the schedule estimations for each.

Scott Meyers

#2. The human spirit needs places where nature has not been re-arranged by the hand of man.

Anonymous

#3. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

Tecumseh

#4. Why wasn't he arrested?" "He was, but they couldn't convict him. Don't ask me why. Ask the politicians that ran the cops in New York and Jersey and Cleveland and the other places. Ask the people that voted for the politicians.

Ross Macdonald

#5. With the exception of China, and perhaps Turkey, no country in the world matters as much to the United States as Mexico.

Stephen Kinzer

#6. Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal autobiographical truths. So how do we decide what's what, and does it even matter?

Lauren Slater

#7. Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.

Terence McKenna

#8. How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

Arthur Schopenhauer

#9. Your default state of living should be in the present, and you should only go into your mind for brief periods. If you are ever in doubt, come back to the present.

Noam Lightstone