Quotes 17–24

When something happy happens, the fact that something happy happened is already a happy thing in itself, so two happy things have happened. That is a very happy thing.

“This program isn’t working according to the specification…”
Kuina-chan: “I’ll go rewrite the specification right away!”

The moment I thought, “This field isn’t for me,” I asked myself, “Am I so great that I can define what ‘myself’ is?” and reminded myself that I should approach it more humbly. I think saying “I can’t do it” is not humility but arrogance. I must keep improving.

Someone said, “What’s the point of philosophy?” but that is philosophy.

Squeeeeze.

When I was about to buy a notebook with the high-quality paper that is said to let a ballpoint pen glide across it, an acquaintance said, “I use paper that costs 10,000 yen per sheet,” and I was surprised, but when I thought about it, I was just about to use some myself.

I think of my whole life up to now as something I have built up for this very moment, so I cherish the present with everything I have.

The Monday after a day off may be hard, but there are as many as seven different days of the week, so the probability that tomorrow is Monday is only 1/7.