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What is especially needed ... [is] To live in the world as in an immense museum of strange things.

Girgio de Chirico, https://www.moma.org/artists/1106

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Alles Einfache ist falsch, alles Komplizierte unbrauchbar.

Paul Valéry, Bonini Paradox.

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In the North Atlantic, a school of cod stalls a tall ship in midocean; off Sydney, Australia, a ship’s captain sails from noon until sunset through pods of sperm whales as far as the eye can see. ... Pacific pioneers complain to the authorities that splashing salmon threaten to swamp their canoes.” There were reports of lions in the south of France, walruses at the mouth of the Thames, flocks of birds that took three days to fly overhead, as many as 100 blue whales in the Southern Ocean for every one that’s there now. “These are not sights from some ancient age of fire and ice,” MacKinnon writes. “We are talking about things seen by human eyes, recalled in human memory.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/magazine/insect-apocalypse.html

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Reducing humans to meat algorithms, useful only for their ability to move and follow orders, makes them easier to hire, fire, and abuse.

It’s a system that is incomprehensible without the aid of computers, and in which the traditional relationship of authority between human and machine is inverted. Reducing humans to meat algorithms, useful only for their ability to move and follow orders, makes them easier to hire, fire, and abuse. https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-deliberate-awfulness-of-social-media

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Look at the white space on that!

Oldham suggests that graphic design, in and of itself, isn’t interesting. “Everything else around it is what’s interesting. You’ve got to draw from other things, disciplines, areas; it’s all got to get in there, because graphic design is a means, not an end. A lot of people forget that, and that’s when you end up with, ‘Look at the white space on that!’” -- https://99u.adobe.com/articles/58698/craig-oldham-on-when-your-dream-job-becomes-just-another-job

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Social media [...] let['s] us showcase our consumption for immediate recognition. This makes the idea of being uninfluenced in one’s tastes seem undesirable and implausible as well as impractical. Having “refined” tastes might only make more clear and palpable one’s sense of cultural isolation.

http://reallifemag.com/all-ears/

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the Internet allows for conflict without consequence

the Internet [...] forced us to come to terms with just how much nuance there is behind every issue, and how many reasons there are to be uncertain about what we might have once perceived as objective truth. The great irony of the Internet is this: it was supposed to connect everyone — and it did — but in doing so, it drove many of us deeper into our own worlds and ideologies, starved as it made us for certainty in the face of its antidote: an unprecedented level of exposure to the perspectives and viewpoints of everyone else. This exposure pits ideas that could never have meaningfully existed without the Internet against one another, creating conflict where it never existed before. Because the Internet allows for conflict without consequence, it continues, unabated, to its logical conclusion — that is, people withdraw from it by isolating themselves in so-called “echo chambers.” https://zandercutt.com/2018/08/05/memes-the-uncertainty-antidote/

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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

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Think of any decision you’ve ever made which had a bearing on your future: I may be wrong, but I don’t see how it could have been anything but a choice however indirect— between the two things I’ve mentioned: the floating or the swimming.

Hunter S. Thompson in his letter to Hume Logan https://fs.blog/2014/05/hunter-s-thompson-to-hume-logan/

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Balk’s Laws

1) Everything you hate about The Internet is actually everything you hate about people 2) The worst thing is knowing what everyone thinks about anything 3) If you think The Internet is terrible now, just wait a while Alex Balk

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You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2016/02/too-busy/

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… I think the way to overcome environmental problems is with technology. What else are we going to use—sticks?

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1509-bjorks-words-of-wisdom-on-technology-multitasking-and-collaboration/

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Signal and noise are … what use you have out of them. So, the signal is the message that you are trying to get. Noise is whatever isn’t that message.

Noise is relative. http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1505-what-were-missing-in-the-analog-vs-digital-debate/

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As time goes, you get opinions on how to do things. ... when I was punk bands back in Iceland, I was really dogmatic that it was all about the music. You're not supposed to care about how you dress, your hair—that was all superficial. ... But then you see four photos of you—not that you're ugly or you’re pretty—but it's just not representative of the song you wrote.

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1509-bjorks-words-of-wisdom-on-technology-multitasking-and-collaboration/

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... „Situationistische Internationale“ ... sind Leute gewesen, die versucht haben den Begriff der Gestaltung über den White Cube-Bereich hinaus zu entwickeln. ... Die Idee war, man könnte ja im Grunde genommen alles gestalten oder sogar die Welt verändern, Politik machen.

http://www.kaput-mag.com/stories-de/von-electronic-body-music-zu-denk-ich-an-deutschland-in-der-nacht_interview_heiner-blum/

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We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is.

https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/05/arnold-bennett-living-meaningful-life/

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The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society. [...] It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospect of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a good many devoted art lovers to rout.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/11/08/ben-shahn-the-shape-of-content-norton-nonconformity