"Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity."

-- Jamais Cascio

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“All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.”
“You know obviously a big TV or film break would be lovely, but I find that Iâ€™m essentially a theatre trained actor and thatâ€™s what I love doing. I love fringe theatres in London, I love theatres like the Royal Court, Soho and the National obviously and if I could work in any of those and be a jobbing actor for a while then Iâ€™m very lucky.”
“Im told Im like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.”
“There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.”
“The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.61, U of Minnesota Press
“Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.”
“But you should know the love can wear away under the stress of being married. Someone you think you love now, you might start to hate when he couldn't take care of your children, it'd be even worse. Love doesn't always survive under those circumstances.”
“Over the last 10 years, women have stalled out at the top.”

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