Quotes
“I don’t really pursue a destination,” he said. “I pursue a direction.”
Brie Wolfson • Flounder Mode
SPIEGEL Interview With Umberto Eco 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'
Lothar Gorrisspiegel.deUmberto Eco: The list is the origin of culture. It's part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
“The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band."
-Brian Eno.
Night City was like a deranged experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button
William Gibson • Neuromancer
Wat een fantastische beschrijving van de stad.
People used to speculate about a thought that destroys the thinker, some unspeakable Lovecraftian horror, or a Gödel sentence that crashes the human logical system. It turns out that the disabling thought is one that we’ve all encountered: the idea that free will doesn’t exist. It just wasn’t harmful until you believed it.
Ted Chiang • Exhalation
Instead of organizing information by topic, they ask us to organize it in terms of actionability.
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
as an artist, I think I’ll learn how to use new magic — AI tools — by thinking of it as a new toy/tool, rather than feeling threatened or replaced by it (which I don’t). AI is changing the world, with or without me. And my prediction (and hope) is this:
The more that new magic infiltrates the world, the more special old magic will be.
The more that new magic infiltrates the world, the more special old magic will be.
Kening Zhu • The new magic of AI vs. the old magic of artists — kening zhu
Vincent Van Gogh on the accumulation of small things:
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The trick is to focus on the first small thing. Starting small is still starting, and small beginnings often lead to extraordinary endings.”