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.
We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.
Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.
My grandmother always told me that regardless of what the world gives you, stay humble. Stay strong in your beliefs, and be honest. And when you're wrong, be a man and say you're wrong. And be strong when you're right.
You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.
The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources
Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.
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