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The obstacle is the path.

— Zen Proverb

Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.

— Traditional

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.

— Shunryu Suzuki

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

— Matsuo Bashō

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

— William Gibson (Neuromancer)

The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.

— William Gibson

The street finds its own uses for things.

— William Gibson

Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive.

— Stewart Brand

There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

— Morpheus (The Matrix)

If a ghost can coexist with a machine, then the definition of life needs to be rewritten.

— Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell)

The Net is vast and infinite.

— Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell)

Humanity is just a data set.

— Lain Iwakura (Serial Experiments Lain)

I'm not a person. I'm a program. I'm a user-created entity.

— Quorra (Tron: Legacy)

I don't have a soul. I'm a machine. But I have a purpose.

— Alita (Alita: Battle Angel)

Time not important, only life important.

— Mondoshawan (The Fifth Element)

I don’t want to survive. I want to live.

— The Captain (WALL-E)

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

— Hans Hofmann

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

— Henry David Thoreau

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Clutter is nothing more than postponed decisions.

— Barbara Hemphill

Minimalism is not a lack of something. It's simply the perfect amount of something.

— Nicholas Burroughs

Your home is a living space, not a storage space.

— Francine Jay

If it's not a "hell yes," it's a "no."

— Derek Sivers

The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.

— Marie Kondo

Video games are art. It's not all 8-bit spaceships anymore - video games are a genuine art form.

Would you kindly?

— Andrew Ryan (BioShock)

I used to be a jerk. A total jerk. And then I became a potato.

— GLaDOS (Portal 2)

To say that nothing is true, is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile, and that we must be the shepherds of our own civilization.

— Ezio Auditore da Firenze (Assassin's Creed)

Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and asks the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer.

— Javik (Mass Effect 3)

Don’t make a girl a promise… if you know you can’t keep it.

— Cortana (Halo 3)

War. War never changes.

— Narrator / Ron Perlman (Fallout)

I'm a ghost, remember? You can't kill what you can't see.

— Sam Fisher (Splinter Cell)

I never asked for this.

— Adam Jensen (Deus Ex: Human Revolution)

It’s easy to forget what a sin is in the middle of a battlefield.

— Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid)