“You are one miniscule piece of a never-ending cycle. In fact, you're not even a piece. You're just a holder for billions and billions of other pieces. Whether that's organic components, living organisms inside your body, bacteria or whatever it is, you're just part of the soup of the universe, so just try to enjoy what's good about it.” TryingFactsBodyUniverseEnjoyPiecesYour BodyBillionsCyclesMmaOrganismsSoupComponentsNever EndingBacteriaLiving OrganismsNever Ending Cycle Author:Joe Rogan
“Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5 billion pieces of candy.” YearsKidsLastsThreePiecesBillionsNeighborhoodExecutivesLast YearHalloweenCandyImaginativeGoldman Sachs Author:Jay Leno
“I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat, life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises that the other little pieces of meat seemed to understand. I was thinking to myself, 'There's five billion people here but we've never been more isolated.' The only result of the aggressive individualism we pursue is that you lose sight of your compassion and we go to bed at night thinking, 'Is this all there is?' because we don't feel fulfilled.” PeopleThinkingFeelsHumansLittlesFormNightWaterLosesHuman BeingsResultsCompassionFivePiecesAirBedSightBillionsNoisePursueMeatPushingAggressiveIndividualismIsolatedFulfilledLonesomeNight Thinking Author:Devin Townsend
“I often reflect on what an extraordinary time (pun intended) it is to be alive here in the beginning of the twenty-first century. It took life billions of years to get to this point. It took humans thousands of years to piece together a meaningful understanding of our cosmos, our planet and ourselves. Think how fortunate we are to know this much. But think also of all that's yet to be discovered. Here's hoping the deep answers to the deep questions-from the nature of consciousness to the origin of life-will be found in not too much more time.” ThinkingKnowsYearsFirstsHumansTogetherFoundUnderstandingAnswersConsciousnessToo MuchPiecesAliveCenturyPlanetsTwentiesExtraordinaryBillionsMeaningfulFortunateCosmosMore TimeOur PlanetPunOrigin Of Life Book:Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation Source: Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
“Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. I mean we consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing.As long as we consume more than we produce, and we trade away little pieces of the country daily, they're going to own something. Now, they can't run from American assets. I mean every day the rest of the world is going to have about two billion more of American assets than we have, as long as they sell us these goods.” WorldMeanLittlesLongTwoCountryRunningPiecesProducePercentTradeBillsSellsBillionsBuyingGoodsAssetsConsumingTreasuryGoods And ServicesTreasury Bill Author:Howard Warren Buffett
“What's fascinating . . .is that you could now have a business that might have been selling for $10 billion where the business itself could probably not have borrowed even $100 million. But the owners of that business, because its public, could borrow many billions of dollars on their little pieces of paper- because they had these market valuations. But as a private business, the company itself couldn't borrow even 1/20th of what the individuals could borrow.” LittlesHas BeensMightIndividualCompanyMillionsPiecesPaperDollarsBillionsSellingFascinatingOwnersMight Have BeenBorrowedValuation Author:Charlie Munger
“So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands here with instruments and talks to the strange creatures in the audience. What a wonderful world!” WorldYearsWaitingHalfAudiencePiecesFourWonderfulStrangeCreaturesInstrumentsBillionsEvolveDirtWonderful World Book:The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist Source: The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist