For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men. ~ Albert Claude

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. -- Simone Weil

My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well. ~ Bruno Latour

"One size fits all": Doesn't fit anyone.

Q: What did Tarzan say when he saw the elephants coming over the hill? A: "The elephants are coming over the hill." Q: What did he say when saw them coming over the hill wearing sunglasses? A: Nothing, for he didn't recognize them.

The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this. ~ Bruno Latour

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx

"How do you pronounce SunOS?" "Just like you hear it, with a big SOS" -- dedicated to Roland Kaltefleiter

The eyes have been used to signify a perverse capacity - honed to perfection in the history of science tied to militarism, capitalism, colonialism, and male supremacy - to distance the knowing subject from everybody and everything in the interests of unfettered power. The instruments of visualization in multinationalist, postmodernist culture have compounded these meanings of dis-embodiment. The visualizing technologies are without apparent limit; the eye of any ordinary primate like us can be endlessly enhanced by sonography systems, magnetic resonance imaging, artificial intelligence-linked graphic manipulation systems, scanning electron microscopes, computer-aided tomography scanners, colour enhancement techniques, satellite surveillance systems, home and office VDTs, cameras for every purpose from filming the mucous membrane lining the gut cavity of a marine worm living in the vent gases on a fault between continental plates to mapping a planetary hemisphere elsewhere in the solar system. Vision in this technological feast becomes unregulated gluttony; all perspective gives way to infinitely mobile vision, which no longer seems just mythically about the god-trick of seeing everything from nowhere, but to have put the myth into ordinary practice. And like the god-trick, this eye fucks the world to make techno-monsters. Zoe Sofoulis (1988) calls this the cannibal-eye of masculinist extra-terrestrial projects for excremental second birthing. ~ Donna J. Haraway

Yo momma is so fat that when she plays hopscotch, she goes 'New York, L.A., Chicago...'

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. -- Mark Twain

Q: How do you shoot a blue elephant? A: With a blue-elephant gun. Q: How do you shoot a pink elephant? A: Twist its trunk until it turns blue, then shoot it with a blue-elephant gun.

Human cardiac catheterization was introduced by Werner Forssman in 1929. Ignoring his department chief, and tying his assistant to an operating table to prevent her interference, he placed a ureteral catheter into a vein in his arm, advanced it to the right atrium [of his heart], and walked upstairs to the x-ray department where he took the confirmatory x-ray film. In 1956, Dr. Forssman was awarded the Nobel Prize.

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could. -- Georgia O'Keeffe

You learn to write as if to someone else because NEXT YEAR YOU WILL BE "SOMEONE ELSE."

I am an elitist asshole and I fully support and endorse your right to be an idiot.

hat show a metadrama enters carrying pillow. puts pillow on head. pause. removes pillow. goes away. ~ Dick Higgins [NYC, Sept-Oct, 1985]

So many adult women are in love with the boys from One Direction. Imagine the reaction if adult men were crazy over a band of teenage girls. ―wtt90, Aug 2015

EPIGRAMS IN PROGRAMMING 82. We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Referring to a book: I read part of it all the way through. -Samuel Goldwyn