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We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.