Stephen's Laws/Observations About Life & Advice
- If you write a book, never make someone you know and/or like a major character.
- Sympathy is the truest emotion.
- Idealists have it harder in life---while naiveté may feel better, cynicism pays.
- There's always a point where you have to choose between trusting someone unconditionally and accusing them of lying. You may try to make it sound nicer, but that's inevitably what it comes down to.
- Always trust J Random Guy to steal any given object that belongs to you.
- The more security you put around something, the more people will crave stealing/screwing around with it.
- The easiest way to keep a secret on the Internet? Don't put it there in the first place.
- The best way to avoid being controversial is to STFU and not get involved in the first place.
- Everyone needs something to fight for.
- You are never going to be able to convince most people to change their minds.
- Pessimist-Fatalists see lots more insoluble situations.
- Everybody needs to scare the sh*t out of themselves occasionally to know that they're alive.
- I would take the blue pill.
- I purposely try not to learn about the actors who play my favorite characters on TV shows, precisely because of that---they're actors. They'll always have flaws that the characters don't have. Real life is never as shiny.
50. When pausing a video, one will always pause on the most unflattering frame of any given individuals in view of the camera.
51. When comparing pay rates/income/working conditions with other teenagers, theirs will always be higher.
52. When auditioning, one will always be at their worst. It appears that, for all your competition, the reverse is true.
53. Computer hackers will always hack. I believe it is a fact that it is utterly impossible to design a technological system that cannot be hacked, given enough hackers, determination, and a couple years. (one example I'd like to cite---in movies, there is the ubiquitous thumbprint-scanner. it seems brilliant and impossible to get around, but the character always knocks out/kills a security guard and presses him thumb on it (coincidentally, the closest random guard will always have the proper security clearances :-) )(...and I just realized that example had nothing to do with hacking, but rather loopholes)
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