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Stuff I'm reading, looking at, listening to, quotes and other scraps.
18 May 2013
That’s the nature of any creative activity — you’re mostly going to be rejected.
The New Yorker’s Bob Mankoff at a recent TED salon. When Mankoff quit psychology school in 1997 to become a cartoonist, he submitted 2,000 cartoons to the New Yorker that year. Of them, 2,000 were rejected. Today, he is the magazine’s cartoon editor.
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14 May 2013
“One technology doesn’t replace another, it compliments. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
– Stephen Fry
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09 May 2013
The printing press taught the people how to read; the internet taught the people how to write
Benjamin Bayart, from. Cypherpunks, Julian Assange et al., page 84/85
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08 May 2013
Utopian economy: generating money/jobs at the top rather than the middle or bottom of Maslow’s Pyramid of Needs.
alaindebotton
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08 May 2013
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
27/04/2013 20:31
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24 April 2013
Reminder: communication, of any sort, is a form of mediated experience. Language is a medium, a technology.
– Bopuc
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13 April 2013
We exist in the minds of other people, in thousands of memory clusters, and one by one those clusters fade and disappear.
Twitter
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27 February 2013
If you don’t like your work, change it. If you don’t like your life, fix it.
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