Awareness is a necessary- but not a sufficient- factor in being deliberate; rather, in order to be deliberate, one must additionally be able to detect contingency within this awareness beyond random chance, and have the motive to convert this perception into strategy...

The concept of inertia is very useful, even applied outside the domain of physics: in fact, it can explain many Why's, ranging from the usual association with physical phenomena to habits and emotional momentum, and a lot in between.

The clarity proffered by an unaffected Night can calm the souls of even the most troubled of men...

Sometimes it's not the potato, but how it is cut, that counts.

A balance of network and knowledge will go a long way; for networking by itself does not ensure substance, and erudite knowledge alone lacks a dimension that would promise dissemination. This balance...combines the strength of each while it eclipses their flaws, and...results a dynamic vehicle towards sustainable growth.

(Beckett, 1953)

Vladimir: Let's go
Estragon: We can't
Vladimir: Why not?
Estragon: We're waiting for Godot
Valdimir: Ah!


...what do you do while you wait?

In reaction to a statement in a psychology journal article that, though it pertains to consciousness from an adaptationist point of view, is still absurd; "No one yet knows what the function of consciousness is" (Haselton & Funder, 2004):

Consciousness is a prerequisite to human emotion, belief, and understanding: consciousness, essentially, is the ability to discern, and the foundation for accessing everything that is worthwhile. While the article doesn't explicitly question the importance of consciousness, it seems a blaspheme to bring into question the utility of something we know to be central to our lives: it marks the difference between merely existing, and living. Scientific validity versus human experience...it reminds me of the light in which religion was shown in the movie Contact.