Unquiet

* I once had a girlfriend in college (well - we _felt_ the emotions for a week; in truth this was early our freshman year and she had a boyfriend back in high school she didn’t have the heart to break up with yet) who described math as “_beautiful, mysterious and sublime_.” I never saw standard math or even algebra that way. Chaos theory, yes. But she was an odd one

* [Best damn description of depression I’ve ever read][1]:

> Depression completely robs you of hope. You don’t believe things can get better, and you don’t believe anything is OK. You look around you and realize that everyone and everything you love is going to go away, sooner or later, and you don’t believe anything good will replace them. Sometimes you just want to self-destruct: you get so tired of waiting for the things you love to abandon you, waiting for that shoe to drop, that you push them away pre-emptorily . Take that, you thing I love, now you can’t hurt me, now I don’t have to live in fear.

[1]: http://wilshipley.com/blog/2005/05/on-being-crazy.html

* [We’re __crazy__, not __lazy__][2]… get it right!

> When I saw the part about how many, like me, have
perceived [psychiatric - _ed._] drugs as ‘weak’ and that all I had to do was one day ‘just be
strong and snap out of it’, my view of the whole situation finally
started to change

[2]: http://groups.google.com/group/43Folders/msg/f25528fe2f172829

* Apple Computer has created some of the best commercials ever; “Here’s to the Crazy Ones” has been my favorite ever since it came out: ([watch it now][3]):

> Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes…

>Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world, are the ones who do.

[3]: http://www.ourmedia.org/node/36521