Brad Barrish

James’ extensive and outstanding work as an editor has never been recognised. It started early: in his introduction to the revised edition of The Adding Machine , James noted how closely he was already working with Burroughs from the mid-1970s on his columns for Crawdaddy magazine. More substantively, he worked from the original manuscripts to edit... See more

Smart people are a dime a dozen and often don’t amount to much. What counts is being creative and imaginative.

When the bubble is big, every idea feels like a billion-dollar idea. I yearn for cheap ideas from strangers.

Almost everything is downstream of integrity

The ease of setting up technology and technological platforms is a major component of why so much basic research is moving out of academia. Practically anyone with a garage these days can do profound studies, relative to just 15 to 20 years ago.