Bryan Johnson Quotes

My life now fits inside a carry-on. Pretty depressing, huh?" "Our lives are much more than just the baggage, love.

The world below is on fire. Through gaps in the smoke, he sees that where Seattle should be, there is only chaos. The wreckage of buildings litter a landscape ablaze.

Countless on-ramps spew impatience onto an already congested interstate.

Jean tries to pull strength from his navy eyes. She stares deep into his surging sea, wanting nothing more than to be here with this man at the end of everything.

Blinding light and smoke enter the cabin as the plane begins spinning savagely along the asphalt. The hellish carousel twists through shadows of fire—death and reality both becoming blurred.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.”~~William Jennings Bryan

Less sleep does not get more done. It just shrinks the value of what’s happening.

makers

Actually, it might even do the opposite.” Model Builder: “Our bodies turn anything we eat into the proper food it needs. You can lose weight eating whatever you want as long as you count calories and take a vitamin pill. We all know that.

Her classmates

It all started with a small lemonade stand in Manitoba,” read one Johnson parody. “The next thing I knew I had sold my mother. The rest was easy.

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A great playwright, Tom Stoppard, once said that laughter is the sound of comprehension. My goal will be to get you to laugh at the end. I need to start with a digression, though. There’s this idea in both comedy and video games called ‘negative transfer.’ The idea is that a rapid switching of one’s frame, in the comedy case, or control scheme, in the video game case, can be both funny and frustrating. As a simple example, think about playing a Nintendo game and you’ve learned since the beginning of time that the left little button on the D-pad moves your character left and the ‘A’ button makes him jump. And then imagine some sort of spell in the game and suddenly all the controls are reversed. That’s called a ‘negative transfer.

Man soon finds what he wants to find. If he cannot find it otherwise, he creates it for his special enjoyment

about something like that, Genevieve thought. “I see.” “Never mind then.” Theo picked up his egg. “Clearly, you have this covered. Forget I asked.” He walked back to his table. Genevieve peeked over at Chloe. “We don’t need Theo’s help, do we?” That evening, fourteen eggs arrived at her doorstep to receive proper care from Dr. Genevieve. She built a special carrier for them out of a milk crate and egg cartons, careful to label and note the condition of each egg upon arrival. All weekend long, she got the eggs plenty of exercise and fresh air by taking them to the park in a stroller. She talked to them for company and sang them songs to keep them entertained. She even read them bedtime stories before lights out. When Genevieve walked into homeroom on Monday, she felt like a hero. She carefully placed the crate of eggs on her desk and set Chloe

Do you think morality is scale-dependent, Adams?” said Maddy. “Seems life can turn anyone into a despot with the right recipe of hurt, impotence, ego, and power. Take you and me. Twins. Are we destined toward similarities? Shaped by our shaper?

Change is hard; being miserable is harder.

too.

A Pentagon investigation found that the team of mostly Green Berets was scheduled to meet with local leaders, but had to change their mission after a drone spotted an Islamic State potentate. Their captain, the target of blame from a Pentagon report that the soldiers’ relatives denounced as a whitewash, expressly warned his superior officer that the unit was neither equipped nor informed enough to execute the raid. More than a hundred militants opened fire on Operational Detachment-Alpha Team 3212. Air support and evacuation did not arrive for four hours, by which time Sergeant First Class Jeremiah W. Johnson, Staff Sergeant Bryan C. Black, and Staff Sergeant Dustin M. Wright were dead. Sergeant La David Johnson was missing, and his body would not be recovered for two days. Less than two weeks later Trump called Johnson’s grieving widow. Myeshia Johnson was with her mother and a family friend, Miami congresswoman Frederica Wilson, who paraphrased Trump as saying that Johnson—whose name Trump evidently didn’t remember—must have known what he had signed up for.

People laughed and it wasn’t just because he was in charge. They had laughed with him before he outranked them. Maybe that’s why he rose so quickly.

No. Unfortunately you have to come to terms with the idea that life itself is the reward. That is the song we pay

11 Brave Old

brain is just a bunch of cells degrading together because we’re basically just an overclocked ape.

So of course some aspects of ‘optimal’ will include pain or suffering or hardship. We all know that’s how this works.

The Earth has to balance its extraordinarily complex biosphere just as our body has to fight to achieve balance in what it lords over. It’s all the same. Systems balancing themselves.

The body is not a calculator. Life is not just the pursuit of quantified records.

And we further know that the brain is stitching things together, after the fact, all to make one’s behaviors, wants, motivations, and thoughts appear to be both obvious and carefully considered. But are they?

He got out the Bunsen burner that he had swiped from the science lab, his mother’s giant lobster

artist,

Jason’s eyes bulged at the sound of that word. He could practically hear his mother’s voice ringing in his ear: “You know, bad guys, Jason.” Proto seemed to be thinking the same thing. He took on an orange color. “Dr. Pascal often talks of people who seek to benefit themselves at the expense of others. Where there is good—” “—there is evil,” Jason finished.

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I try all things, I achieve what I can! Incidentally, that’s Herman Melville.

Technology is the answer, but it hasn’t been able to change the dismal mentality and tragically selfish behavior of humankind.

Cooler

ran her finger

the side of the building!

Perfect.” Dad grinned. “Talmage, the weather is hot. The Monster loves his water warm.

Monster

mumbo-jumbo,

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The usual,” Jefferson said. “What I see.

homeroom,