Robert Ruybalid:
CLASS OF 1986
Concord High SchoolClass of 1986
Concord, CA
Robert's Story
Robert is from Concord, California. Robert's schools include Concord High School. Robert later attended University of California, Santa Barbara.
Robert's interests include Film. Music Robert likes includes Rocktron, Gibson Guitar, Bob Marley. Books Robert likes include Nineteen Eighty-Four, Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Movies Robert likes include Fargo, Unforgiven, Answers to Nothing. TV shows Robert likes include Fishmasters, Leave It to Beaver.
One of Robert's favorite quotes is:""Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligenceâ whether much that is gloriousâ whether all that is profoundâ does not spring from disease of thoughtâ from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect."
â Edgar Allan Poe (Complete Tales and Poems)
"The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is...Expand for more
possible for a human creature to become. "
--Adam Smith
Law 4
Always Say Less than Necessary
When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.
--Robert Greene (the 48 Laws of Power)".
More about Robert:"Main Entry: com·plex
Pronunciation: \Ëkäm-Ëpleks\
Function: noun
Etymology: Late Latin complexus totality, from Latin, embrace, from complecti
Date: 1643
1 : a whole made up of complicated or interrelated parts <a complex of welfare programs> <the military-industrial complex>
2 a) : a group of culture traits relating to a single activity (as hunting), process (as use of flint), or culture unit
b) (1) : a group of repressed desires and memories that exerts a dominating influence upon the personality (2) : an exaggerated reaction to or preoccupation with a subject or situation
c): a group of obviously related units of which the degree and nature of the relationship is imperfectly known
d) : the sum of factors (as symptoms) characterizing a disease or condition".
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