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.
Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.
So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
Barking dogs may occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot!
I have found it very important...to let go of my wishes and start hoping.
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