provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
This is the first and most important test of alternative values. Can you take your own exit, and stay on the road. If the answer is no, there's no there there.
Reggie James • SAVE THE INTERNET
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
–Chuck Palahniuk
Wild Hope: Indy Johar Keynote
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there are 9,000 problems in life that have the solution "know more local people" and people will do literally anything except spend time on that
“It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.“ - Donna J. Haraway, Staying with the Tro
... See morePeople worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real worry is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world. -Pedro Domingos
sari azout • Tweet
One does not get a jet engine by improving the propeller. One does not breed horses until they give birth to a car. Telephones did not come from research on mail. Where on earth did the inspiration for the transistor and these other "leaps" of innovation come from to begin with?