NASA employees DO have a sense of humor. Take this 'Buzzword Generator' from 1966 at NASA-MSC (later renamed JSC). At first, I thought someone must have been getting tired of listening to PowerPoint presentations and then I remembered that there was no PowerPoint in 1966!

RECEIVING DATA

It's Okay to say "I don't know!" There's no shame in that! The only shame is to pretend that we know everything.

Desi parents don't wake you up. They just turn off the fan.

Whenever you wish time went by faster, ask yourself why.

I ran the numbers! Looks like the center of mass of humanity is some ~2500 km under Fayzabad, Afghanistan (+36.8°,+66.8°). That's about 60% away from Earth's center on northwest Asia. I was pretty close! (Couldn't work 100% properly with the WGS84, so this may be off somewhat!)

Ouch.

Being calm is a skill

"I have to write to think. Otherwise the same old ideas keep circulating round and round, clogging the synapses. Writing is not a result of thinking – it is thinking itself scaffolded by the external props of a keyboard and screen." —⁦Tiago Forte⁩

Academia killed the polymath

Instagram: check out my body. Twitter: check out my brain.

David Perell Your name should be more famous than your face

I fear no man, but this... It scares me

Took me an embarrassing amount of time to reach the grown-up mountain

The first time I felt this was with Parth Chopra

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