"There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating."

-- Alan Kay

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“You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and fingernails, everything, it's like I'm full of electricity and I'm glowing in the dark - I'm on fire almost - I'm burning away into nothing - but it doesn't matter because I know exactly who I am.”
“You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.”

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“And you should never cut your hair 'cos I love the way you flick it off your shoulders”
“It's not who wins the fight that's important, it's being willing to fight. If you get challenged and renege, everyone wants to take a shot at you.”
“It's easy to attack an artist as misogynist, but that's really such a facile epithet. And if an artist is constantly worrying about how others will judge a work, it can end up being a block to investigating certain areas of human nature or certain truths about sexuality.”
“The only vulnerable place in our armor is where we ourselves leave it exposed, because God has armed us at all points. He has made us impervious to outside attacks. But when we boil inside, destruction waits upon us.”
“Never invest so much in anyone romantically that you lose your head. The Buddha of casual sex, I remain detached at all costs.”
“The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.”

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