Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
Interpretation
Avoid making important decisions when you are tired and less alert.
This quote emphasizes the importance of mental clarity and the appropriate timing when addressing serious issues. Philip K. Dick suggests that the late hours of the night often lead to fatigue and diminished judgment, which can result in hasty decisions that might not hold up when thought through in a more clear-headed state.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a discussion about decision making in leadership.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
"Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.
The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you've accrued over those years.
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.
Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.
The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it.
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