"The idea of having more technology solving this idea of hyperactive lifestyle is not really the mainstream problem. I think the real innovation thatâ€™s going to be rewarded will be on things like, letâ€™s convert our computers from being tools to being companions. Letâ€™s convert our computers from being utilitarian to being enlightening. These are human needs."

-- Horace Dediu

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“I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?”
“I know nothing and perhaps I never will,”
“The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.”
“Something of eternal significance transpired there. Not only was the calendar of the world changed, but heaven itself and eternity were affected.”
“This was early '90s and in New York hip-hop was coming on really strong; that was the sort of urban folk music that was almost threatening to eclipse rock music and indie rock music in terms of popularity, which it has certainly gone on to do. But you know, this is the end of the 1980s, beginning of the '90s. The whole independent label thing has really evolved to this incredible point from the early '80s when we started, and there wasn't one record label at all, until a couple people started forming these small labels.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.”
“We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict,”
“I dwell in the city and the city dwells in me.”

Source : Juhani Pallasmaa (2012). “The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses”, p.43, John Wiley & Sons

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