"They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!"

-- Emil Ruder

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“I think there's still room for compelling voices to build up and get a great following.”
“I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition. ... We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.”

Source : "Evolution of the Brain: Creation of the Self", p.241, 1989.
“And itâ€™s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts that come to me unbidden are far fresher and more imaginative than the ones I consciously seek out.”
“Now that lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room And twists one in her fingers while she talks. "Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know What life is, you who hold it in your hands"; (slowly twisting the lilac stalks) "You let it flow from you, you let it flow, And youth is cruel, and has no remorse And smiles at situations which it cannot see." I smile, of course, And go on drinking tea.”
“Coincidence is the language of the stars, for something to happen, so many forces have to be put into action.”
“I think that in the realm of commercial, popcorn cinema, the amount of message or smuggling of ideas you can get in there is quite limited. Like, if you think you're going to make a difference or change anything, you're on pretty dangerous thin ice.”

Source : "'Elysium' Interview: Neill Blomkamp's Team On Creating A New Sci-Fi World". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, screencrush.com. April 10, 2013.
“It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.”
“It has been a wonderful five years. I'm excited about the many projects we're working on as we move into year six, and I want to thank everyone for tuning in. We couldn't do it without you!”

Source : "Joan Rivers' 'resting comfortably' in hospital, daughter says" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2014.

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