Reyna d’Assia: The Key to Immortal Consciousness 25. Do not follow fashions.

"Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone." - Ayn Rand

Inquisition Global body charged with maintaining uniform standards of the Discipline across all maths and concents, typically acting through the Wardens Regulant. ~ From the glossary of 'Anathem' by Neal Stephenson

Paper Architecture Hang a large sheet or several large sheets of paper. Inscribe the sheets are with full-scale architectural features, such as doors, windows, or stairs, or with objects such as furniture, lamps, books, etc. Use these drawings to imagine, create, or map an environment. The drawings may create or map new features in an existing environment. They may mirror, double or reconstruct existing features in situ or elsewhere. To create relatively permanent features with the drawings, apply them directly to a wall. 1968-1972 San Francisco, California ~ Ken Friedman

When you're going up the stairs and you take a step, kick the other leg up high behind you to keep people from following too close. -- Jack Handey

From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power. ~ Donna J. Haraway

An eagle flies high, it flies higher than a sea gull But the crow wings rapidly from tree to bush to hedge The same can be true of life and of death Sometimes life flies high, sometimes death wings rapidly Sometimes it is spoken That death wings from tree to bush to hedge Sometimes it does not ~ Racter (The Policeman’s Beard is Half Constructed)

Freud described three great historical wounds to the primary narcissism of the self-centered human subject, who tries to hold panic at bay by the fantasy of human exceptionalism. First is the Copernican wound that removed Earth itself, mans home world, from the center of the cosmos and indeed paved the way for that cosmos to burst open into a universe of inhumane, nonteleological times and spaces. Science made that decentering cut. The second wound is the Darwinian, which put Homo sapiens rmly in the world of other critters, all trying to make an earthly living and so evolving in relation to one another without the sureties of directional signposts that culminate in Man. Science inicted that cruel cut too. The third wound is the Freudian, which posited an unconscious that undid the primacy of conscious processes, including the reason that comforted Man with his unique excellence, with dire consequences for teleology once again. Science seems to hold that blade too. I want to add a fourth wound, the informatic or cyborgian, which infolds organic and technological esh and so melds that Great Divide as well. ~ Donna J. Haraway

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again. -- George Miller

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EPIGRAMS IN PROGRAMMING 2. Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.

Benjamin Maxwell: You're a fool, Picard. History will look at you and say, "This man was a fool." Jean-Luc Picard: I'll accept the judgment of history. "Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Wounded [4.12], Season 4"

vellichor n. The strange wistfulness of used bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time filled with thousands of old books you'll never have time to read, each of which is itself locked in its own era, bound and dated and papered over like an old room the author abandoned years ago, a hidden annex littered with thoughts left just as they were on the day they were captured. ~ Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women. -- Lord Kelvin

If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. If you can't see Chuck Norris, you may be only seconds away from death.

Conformity no longer leads to comfort. But the good news is that creativity is scarce, and more valuable than ever. So is choosing to do something unpredictable and brave: make art. Being an artist isnt a genetic disposition or a specific talent. Its an attitude we can all adopt. Its a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things you're an artist, no matter what it says on your business card. -- Seth Godin

Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal. ~ Fred Rogers

What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you. -- Nietzsche

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed. -- Marina Abramovic

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. ~ William Blake