Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.

Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

A contemporary or near-future book is much harder because you can't fake the facts. There are people alive who know much more than you do about the subject. You have to really have your research together - and of course no one can know everything about a topic.

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.

Many pedestrians have been maimed or killed at the intersection of Resistance and Commerce.