Welcome To Reg Harbeck's Meta-Bytes!

Being someone who enjoys inspiring simplicty, I've had a tendancy to try my hand at strategic simplifications of how things work. I also enjoy employing humour in my approach to grasping the universe. Since I'm not the only person who seems to like such bite-sized ideas, I decided I should share them. Here they are!

(Last updated 2011-01-26.)

Consistency and pain are brothers; serendipity and pleasure are sisters.
A tent is defined by its supports.
Practice constructive cynicism: admit that, no, the world doesn't behave the way it "should". Then go and interact with the way it "does" behave to produce positive results, anyway!
Where appearances are the basic system, manipulation will be the basic strategy.
It's not how much you can accumulate, but how much you're able to share.
Every action is an interaction. And vice versa.
There is no such thing in real life as "getting even". Pursuit of it only makes it more distant. Yet, unconditional releasing of it is most likely to have a truly even effect. Perhaps we should instead speak of "Letting Even."
The essential inter-human moral act is to further free will in others or oneself.
The connection between money and true value exists primarily at moderate levels of both.
There is no observable difference between a computer program that appears to work and one that does.
A win requires the whole world; a loss can be accomplished alone.
Accidents are the biggest cause of accidents.
Optimize, specialize, grow roots: same idea.
Halve your cake and eat it two.
Laughter lubricates the contact between symbol and reality.
Everything changes everything.
Political Correctness is a state of I mind.
The smaller things are, the faster their relative speed.
The larger they are, the faster their absolute speed.
Reality is the most effective illusion - when we are given what we want, but our desire has been incomplete or inaccurate.
Love should not be give and take, but rather give and receive.
Talk and action breed themselves and feed each other.
Winning is more often about "best" and "good enough" than "better".
Avoid "frugal thinking" -- it doesn' cost to be lavish in thought.
The more clear-cut and simple, the more likely that something is subjective/arbitrary; the more fuzzy and difficult, the more likely that it is objectively true.
The more accurately I reflect the real world, the more it would appear to reflect my wishes.
The truth unites; the arbitrary divides.
If you're not taking advantage of your situation, chances are that somebody else is.
Hope is a sword, not a shield.
Life is a puzzle where you only connect the pieces that help you meet your personal objectives.
The pragmatist says, "I don't see how that will make me a better caterpillar."
Intelligent people should try to simplify the complex (in descriptive fashion) rather than complicating the simple (in prescriptive fashion).
Hate is a double-edged sword without a handle.
Strategy is superior to logic as goals are to means.
Temporary outlasts permanent.
Realizing that the pervasive noise is language means realizing that there is a speaker.
People are more easily pulled than pushed.
Infatuation is an appetite. Once satisfied, appetites go away. Caring is an attitude; once satisfied, attitudes are strengthened.
Morality requires that our actions have a meaning.
Truth has no need of falsehood, but falsehood is meaningless without truth.
An inspiring simplification tends to win against a complex truth.
We train the subconscious and educate the conscious.
Experience is a grain of sand, memory is a pearl.
To succeed, always give more than you expect to get back.
Most rules are made with the intent of preserving the status quo.
Education is a photograph of experience.
Life is an extenuating circumstance.
It is impossible to pretend to be dishonest.
Consciousness curves reality like gravity curves space.
Language is fractal.
Simplicity has the same importance as the thin edge of a wedge.