"It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems."

-- R. Buckminster Fuller

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“Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show.”
“my sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so many.”
“I remember periods where we didn't even have beats in our club sets, but people kept dancing. The beat wasn't even necessary, because it was a biokinetic experience - that's our metaphor for the dance and the body and all its expressions. From today's point of view, this would be totally impossible.”
“...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.”
“I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon.”

Source : "Donna Summer: 'Then I sought help'". Interview with Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. October 22, 2003.
“If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.”

Source : "Computer Lib/Dream Machines". Book by Ted Nelson, 1974.
“A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency. I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss.”

Source : John Kennedy Toole (1980). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.23, Dubois Publishing
“The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation, from Spartacus to Danton and Dostoevsky; they are the classical form of betrayal of the cause. The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. As long as chaos dominates the world, God is an anachronism; and every compromise with oneâ€™s own conscience is perfidy. When the accursed inner voice speaks to you, hold your hands over your earsâ€¦.”

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