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“For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork.”
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“No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.”
Source : Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.136, Simon and Schuster
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“In Czechoslovakia there is no such thing as freedom of the press. In the United States there is no such thing as freedom from the press.”
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“I ask for nothing. / In return I give All. / There is no earning my Love. / No work needed, no effort / Save to listen to what is already heard, / To see what is already seen. / To know what is already known. / Do I seem to ask too little? / Would you give although I ask not? / Then this you can give me and I will accept. / I will take your heart. / You will find it waiting for you / When you return.”
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“In times of uncertainty, wait. Always, if you have any doubt, wait. Do not force yourself to any action. If you have a restraint in your spirit, wait until all is clear, and do not go against it.”
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“There's no law against a sentence existing in two places at once, unlike humans, who are no longer allowed to bilocate because it confuses the cops too much.”
Source : "What Would Twitter Do?" with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. July 23, 2014. 
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“Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.”
Source : "Run-DMC star, 37, was hip-hop pioneer", www.cnn.com. October 31, 2002.
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“Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.”
