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“building wealth versus inheriting it money without context means less than money with context.

“you have to know enough about what you’re doing to ask the right questions.

““We develop a formal correspondence between the spacetime constraint of special relativity and the time-allocation constraint of labor economics. By defining wages as proportional to proper time rather than coordinate time, we derive a "relativistic wage curve"

““Spend according to your wealth, not your income”

““The problem isn’t the game, it’s that you keep showing up to play it”

“some people think I’m not a real person just because I’m a theoretical physicist.

“Too many options creates choice paralysis. Choice paralysis leads to perpetual unhappiness. This is the abundance of choice paradox, which creates anxiety, not satisfaction.

““ complexity kills execution”

““ a lot of people wanna be successful, but they’re not willing to wake up an hour earlier”

““expertise reversal effect”

““Matthew Effect” in education - “to those who have, more will be given.”

““The Overton Window is a concept that defines the range of ideas, policies, or opinions considered acceptable or mainstream within a society at a given time.”

“Ideal Gas Law of Time: tasks diffuse evenly across the day, driven by an almost thermodynamic inevitability. Trentism 2025. Paper written on 3/6/25

““According to the Kinetic Theory of Gases, developed by scientists like Maxwell and Boltzmann, a gas will evenly occupy its container due to the random motion of its particles.” Short version: “a gas will always occupy it’s container”

“Moravec Paradox states the tasks that are easy for humans, and difficult for machines, such as facial recognition. On the other hand, tasks that we find challenging, such as complex calculations or playing chess, are relatively easy for Al systems. 22 Nov 2023

““The characters in the game are the game developers”

““Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”

““As a former toddler, I can relate to your behavior”

““You need to have a solid understanding that life is finite. In 30 to 40 years everybody’s whose opinion you’re worried about is going to be dead. So be comfortable taking an uncomfortable risk. Don’t be worried about rejection, because everyone your worried about being ashamed by will be dead soon, so will you. So why wouldn’t you live out loud?”

““it wasn’t fish that invented water”

““If you compare your partner to the idealized version of a partner, you will be disappointed, and if they compare you to an idealized partner, they will be disappointed”

“Parkinson’s law is the idea that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion.

““ interviewer: Elon, how do you manage really smart people? Elon you don’t manage really smart people they manage themselves.”

“BJORK (With the O having a line through it like a Zero; Richard Feynman’s pseudo name checking in at restaurants)

“I take laplaces demon, as; if you know the state of every particle in the universe, which is momentum and position then using just physics, you can accurately predict the future, and the future is deterministic, although if you factor in quantum uncertainty, that no longer is the case.

““make it simple, but significant “

““The 37% Rule; if you knew you were interviewing 100 potential secretaries, you’d interview and reject the first 37, and you’d keep in mind who your best-so-far candidate was as a benchmark. From interview 38 onwards, you’d immediately hire the person better than your best-so-far candidate. This is how you maximise your chances of hiring the best overall candidate.”

“Nash Equilibrium in a Relationship: Nash equilibrium is a concept in game theory that describes a situation where each player in a game chooses a strategy that is optimal given the strategies chosen by all other players in the game. In other words, no player can improve their outcome by changing their strategy while the other players keep their strategies unchanged. In a relationship, Nash equilibrium can be achieved when both partners choose strategies that are optimal given the strategies chosen by their partner. For example, if both partners choose to be honest with each other, then they will both benefit from this strategy and neither will have an incentive to change their behavior.

“”The ruliad which is kind of the entangled limit of all possible computations. …our experience of the physical world is taking some slice of that ruliad, experiencing kind of the set of all possible computations in a particular slice that corresponds to the ways that our sensory data work and our minds work”

““The only way for me to win the lottery is for other people to buy tickets” Trentism 2023 “the only way to win the lottery is for other people to buy tickets”

“A sound mind in a sound body', or in Latin 'Mens sana in corpore sano', is a well-known motto. It stands for the ideal of versatility. A person is only healthy when he is occupied both intellectually and physically.

““sell your losers and let your winners ride”

““loosers focus on winners, winners focus on winning”

““The person who invented autocorrect should burn in hello”

““Meritocracy; I system, organization or society in which people are chosen and moved into positions of success, power and influence based on their demonstrated abilities and merit.”

“"There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement."

““Think with clarity, listen for potential, and act with purpose”

““ i’m sorry can you do that again I was folding the dishes”

““regional idioms; like y’all and youse-guys”

““ The economy is fundamentally built upon labor, so this will have profound implications as capital equipment enters the labor market. Elon Musk 2021

““ Everybody laughed at me when I told them I wanted to be a standup comedian, well nobody’s laughing now “

““Wealth is money you get from simply having money in the first place”

““Quantum entanglement is mostly viewed in the time domain of spin and/or polarization. In the Fourier transform we may encode or find an order of magnitude more correlated information in the entangled space limited by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.”

““The majority of people are not successful, so dont do what the majority are doing”

““ invest in the business, not the stock price”

““When the cost of solar and storage is less than the cost of distribution and transmission of electricity to the residential home utilities will no longer have a business.”

“Tom Magliozzi: “Happiness Equals Reality Minus Expectations” Trents version; “Happiness is reality minus expectations; so reducing your expectations increases your happiness.”

“Elon Musk to Jim Kramer “ You are a hologram: there’s a 50% chance that a hologram doesn’t exist. “

“bon vivant; a person who enjoys a sociable and luxurious lifestyle

“if you stay in shape you never have to get in shape. Trentism 6/11/20

““ regardless of the merit of an invention or discovery, It achieves greatness only when it contributes to the well-being of many people. “ Western electric vacuum tube video “A modern aladdins lamp”

“most eligible bachelor and least wanting to be single. Trentism 6/1:20

““A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two is never sure.”

“Amid the coronavirus stock market craziness; Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said in 2005: “We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.”

“Thermometers are just speedometers for molecules. Unknown author.

“It’s ok to dream as long as you combine it with hard work. John DeLoreans father.

“Paul Watson, a founder of Greenpeace: "It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true."

“Wiki. the total entropy of the system and its surroundings increases and the process is irreversible in the thermodynamic sense. The increase in entropy accounts for the irreversibility of natural processes, and the asymmetry between future and past.[2]

“says Winston Goodfellow, an automotive author and analyst who judged the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance last month. “After all, if the things aren’t being utilized for their original purpose, there are only so many suckers and cult members out there who will agree that this weird Kool Aid actually tastes good and makes sense to drink.”

“Familiarity Breeds Contempt; The more acquainted one becomes with a person, the more one knows about his or her shortcomings and, hence, the easier it is to dislike that person

“John F Kennedy “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

“Daniel Conniman (Nobel prize winner). Q: “what it takes to become an expert on something; Hours of practice, Timely feedback, reliable environment. “

“Ryan (EM drive episode of Space Time) The first message we receive from aliens will be “Stop broadcasting; you are in danger!”

“Big Bang Theory “...you have emotional issues below your conscience that drive your behavior.” Or “...I have emotional issues below my conscience that drives my behavior”

“Emerson Fittipaldi; “A man is like a bicycle; stop peddling and you crash. You have to keep going. “

“Dunning-Kruger Effect. Incompetent people routinely overestimate their skills and abilities. Conversely, highly competent individuals may erroneously assume that tasks easy for them to perform are also easy for other people to perform. The cognitive bias results from an internal illusion in people of low ability and from an external misperception in people of high ability. “If you're incompetent, you can't know you're incompetent ... The skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize [the] right answer.”

““Play Stupid games, win stupid prizes”

““Brevity is the sole of wit”

“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love"

“"Pleasure or happiness can not be reverse-engineered"

““If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

“Why didn’t you finish college? “Don't let schooling interfere with your education. I can live for two months on a good compliment. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

“"I love lamp."

“"self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important"