Barshop Ventures Quotes & Sayings

Technos and clerics have much in common. Both take a world that can't be fully understood and try to explain its fundamental properties.
Clerics postulate beliefs that can never be proven; they demand you accept these postulates as your Faith, which will guide your actions and thoughts. It's a top down way of thinking; start with the big picture and derive rules for living. Fundamental knowledge is static. Even the derived rules rarely change.
Technos work from the bottom up. They build a baseline of observations and formulate theories to explain these phenomena. Nothing is sacred; with new observations, theories are discarded or modified to fit the facts.
Technos and clerics; how could they not be in conflict?
Dan Ronco's Diary, 2016
— Dan Ronco

Let it go to create emptiness, to accept the best. — Debasish Mridha

If you're wearing it to 'da club, you shouldn't be wearing it to 'da office. — Clinton Kelly

If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe. — Aldous Huxley

Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis. — Bertrand Russell

put my hand in front of her finger, thinking, 'She's a magician; it might be loaded. — Garon Whited

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school. — Alberto Salazar

Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age. It is, of course, equally silly to condemn the new fangled simply because it is strange ... — Prince Philip

Meditation ... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. — Tom Robbins

I'm learning to be braver with colorful clothes, even if they're a little wild. — Yuliya Snigir

My hand feels cold without his. — Jennifer Niven

If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers. — Nancy Kress

Leadership is about being a servant first. — Allen West