Olex Ponomarenko

Capitalism isn't the best.

Between social and planetary boundaries lies an environmentally safe and socially just space in which humanity can thrive.

If you are sure of your facts, you should defend your position.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Any opportunity that could be used by your subconscious for introspection and reflective thought should be quashed. For example, instead of staring out the window on a train journey, try rejecting hundreds of eligible life-partners on Tinder.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

As I see it, part of the act of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore, realizing that the game has changed and that the stakes are different and that there isn't necessarily a place for you in this strange new pantheon of extraordinary people.

Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying no to all but the most crucial features.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Don't point that gun at him, he's an unpaid intern.

Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don't know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me.

Sucking is the first step to being sorta good at something.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

Truth resists simplicity.

I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it.

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Alcohol is only a depressant if your life sucks.

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

When people are exposed to good electronic music they seem to like it.