December 2010
48 posts
“00:23:20,843 —> 00:23:28,118
Sounds like an illusion to me. Lives...”
– bored to death
“a self-fulfilling prophecy
of endless possibility
you roll in reams
across...”
– analyzzzzzze
“we are the $ and ¢
and the £ and p
and the DM and the ¥”
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the...”
– Blade Runner (1982)
let’s call it “asymmetric response expectation”.
“But we cannot expect to have it all ways. Life is full of choices, and to choose...”
– Being foreign: The others | The Economist
“There is a first time for everything. A first step. A first word. A first kiss....”
– Dexter (via catherineruthe)
Restless, Reckless and Relentless.
“Last year I thought about the first time I traveled through Europe, which was in...”
– William Gibson (who’s admittedly all over the map on this one)
“Sometimes I can hear my bones ache under the weight of all the lives I’m not...”
– Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer (via thecardioid)
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;...”
– Calvin Coolidge
“I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to...”
– Douglas Adams (The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time)
i’m a sponge
and you’re a vase
“när ska jag lära mig att ingen är hel?
att allting är mer eller mindre trasigt...”
(we breathe bandwidth)
“like dying, everyone reads alone”
– ALA
“What will most surprise us is how dependent we will be on what the Machine knows...”
– Kevin Kelly
loose thought
our culture has disjointed time of production of content from it’s time of appreciation. great effort imbued in creating has no bearing on the time the spectator feels should be invested in appreciating it. likewise, productions created at the velocity in which they are later consumed (think YouTube videos, think real-time), easily garner a disproportionate amount of hours of appreciation...
“As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time,...”
– camuzzzzzzz