"All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what."

-- Jacob Lawrence

“I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.”
“I want to be someone that kids in my community look up to and want to strive to give back when they grow up.”
“So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.”
“I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I have a purpose. My skin, you see, screams. It's covered with words - cook, cupcake, kitty, curls - as if a knife-wielding first-grader learned to write on my flesh. I sometimes, but only sometimes, laugh. Getting out of the bath and seeing, out of the corner of my eye, down the side of a leg: baby-doll. Pulling on a sweater, and in a flash of my wrist: harmful. Why these words?”
“Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do - it's a matter of being different at what you do.”
“When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.”
“Extravagant love is never wasted.”
“The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of problems concerned with relations between the "structure" and the "function" of such nets. The "structure" of a random net is not a clearly defined topological manifold such as could be used to describe a circuit with explicitly given connections. In a random neural net, one does not speak of "this" neuron synapsing on "that" one, but rather in terms of tendencies and probabilities associated with points or regions in the net.”

Source : "The bulletin of mathematical biophysics" by Anatol Rapoport, (pp. 145-157), 1948.

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