As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

--H.L. Mencken, 1920

" The ennui of infinite content is reversing our spiraling desire for more of it."
  — Seth Godin, "The End of the Content Shortage"

https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/951883307/0/sethsblog~The-end-of-the-content-shortage/

I'm not sure exactly when the content shortage ended though. Last year? A hundred years ago? But I like the quote

Never stay up late for something you wouldn't get up early for.

Asker Jeukendreup
https://www.mysportscience.com/post/improving-sleep-for-recovery

Today I Learned:

In 1914, John Basil Barnhill said in a series of debates on socialism, "Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty."

I always see this attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but I looked it up before quoting it in the AI Bubble Crystal Ball thread and it turns out that if Jefferson did say it, it first appeared in print attributed to Jefferson in 1994.
https://www.monticello.org/encyclopedia/when-government-fears-people-there-liberty-spurious-quotation

"I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me."

This is attributed to Ammon Hennacy who might have said it, but at least in his published writings I could search, said something very close, but not quite the same:

Quote"Hennacy, do you think you can change the world?" said Bert Fireman, a columnist on the Phoenix Gazette.
"No, but I am damn sure it can't change me" was my reply.

-- Autobiography of a Catholic Anarchist, p. 112. (re-edition of Book of Ammon)
https://dn710909.ca.archive.org/0/items/AutobiographyOfACatholicAnarchist/AutobiographyOfACatholicAnarchist.pdf


Another good one from him (p. 111). He was protesting and they threatened to arrest him for disturbing the peace. He replied: "I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war"

Richard Stallman says of this quote: "I see how the use of nonfree software, and digital dis-services, has changed others for the worse. Millions surrender their freedom and privacy without moving a muscle to protect it. "
https://stallman.org/notes/2018-jul-oct.html

Stallman's bio on his homepage says: "I am the Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project," so he's predisposed to like Ammon Hennacy