"Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled."

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Source : "Computer Lib". Book by Ted Nelson, p. 42 / Dream Machines p.45, 1974.

Ted Nelson

#People Quotes #Emptiness Quotes #Pretending Quotes

“In the '60s and '70s, people didn't pay a lot of attention to gangs. I think gangs still existed, but gangs had fallen out of criminological favor.”
“I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.”
“It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.”
“Where you live in the United States shouldn't determine how long and how healthy you live - but it does, far more than it should.”
“Morning, sunshine." Vlad blinked at her. "Morning, sulfuric acid." "Pardon me?" "Well, isn't it just kinda wrong to call a vampire 'sunshine'?”

Source : Heather Brewer (2007). “The chronicles of Vladimir Tod: eighth grade bites”
“There is no question that a very large number of people have to move; you cannot live where the water comes over you. I have not heard one suggestion on how we are going to move one hundred million people out of low-lying areas and what countries would be willing to accept them.”
“My grandmother always used to say, "If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?" I always remember this and it's true. You have to start each day again-you can't repeat what you did.”
“Truth matters. Everything we can do to find, feed, and strengthen it is worth the effort.”

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