Rules to "Live" By

1. Balance your depth-first searches with more breadth-first ones; and I ain't just talking about the web.
2. See above, but vice versa.
3. Math is always right; logic, even more so.
4. It is impossible to say anything is right or wrong universally; it is all just your opinion.
5. There is no such thing as a sexual "perversion" (or, alternately, there is only sexual perversion; pick one).
6. Revel in contradiction, look forward to irony, enjoy sarcasm.
7. Count on death; everything else is a lie, or minimally has no rules.
8. Sleep is unnecessary; the loss of sanity is a perfect sacrifice (and added bonus) for the time you gain.
9. Nature (a.k.a. The Big Picture) will always win. Then women, then everyone else but you.
10. Sanity is overrated, and a subjective term at best.
11. You are always just like everybody else, and always unique. Don't worry about it.
12. Expression is your only way to be alive. Think verbs not nouns.
13. Laws are based on ideas, not the other way around.
14. Get up off your apathy and do something. (See #7, part A)
15. Nothing is shocking or different. Try to disprove this.
16. Expect life to leave you with plenty of open, nested parenthetical phrases. There is no Lisp-like meta-close "]". (See #1
17. Get used to it. You are always fighting numbers. See "the bell curve".
18. Other people are more important than you know. Pay attention.
19. There is plenty you don't know, won't see, will never do, and cannot accomplish. Learn to think humbly.
20. The positive things in life are the easy part; study the negative.
21. Never own a television (or set your vcr to only allow you to pick the cable access channels, and maybe, like, the learning channel).
22. Money isn't evil; misunderstanding it is.
23. Guns don't kill people; stupidity does.
24. Obsession is a sign of passion, and is not (necessarily?) negative.