July 2011
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“ “If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power,...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813-1855), Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
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“ “I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.” ”
– Georgia O’Keeffe, American artist; painter (1887-1986) cited in Laurie Lisle, Portrait of an Artist, Simon and Schuster, 1997, p.184. (tnx apoetreflects)
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“ “The knowledge of past times and of the places on the Earth is both an...”
– Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath; painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer (1452-1519), The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (English translation by Jean Paul Richter of 1888)
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“Stewart Brand: ‘Look At the World Through the Eyes Of A Fool’...”
– Stewart Brand, American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, ☞ “Look At the World Through the Eyes Of A Fool”, The European, 30.05.2011 ☞ See also: Whole Earth Catalogue
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“ “Privacy is not something that can be counted, divided, or “traded.” It...”
– Siva Vaidhyanathan, cultural historian and media scholar, currently a professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia, cited in James Gleick, How Google Dominates Us, The New York Review of Books, August 18, 2011
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“ “College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two...”
– John Cage, American composer, philosopher, poet, music theorist, artist, printmaker (1912-1992), M: Writings 1967-1972 (tnx libraryland)
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“ “It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Bohemian–Austrian poet (1875-1926), Letters to a Young Poet
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“ “Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.” ”
– Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer (1907-1988)
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“ “If you understand something in only one way, then you don’t really...”
– Marvin Minsky, American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s AI laboratory, cited in Training Genius: The Learning Secrets of Polyglots and Savants, The 99 Percent, July 2011 (tnx myserendipities)
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“ “A “filter bubble”— “a unique universe of information for each of us”,...”
– The dangers of the internet: Invisible sieve, The Economist, Jun 30th 2011 (tnx myserendipities) See also: ☞ The Filter Bubble: Eli Pariser on What the Internet Is Hiding From You
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“ “The sad truth is that most evil done in this world is not done by people...”
– Hannah Arendt, German American political theorist and philosopher (1906-1975), paraphrased by Damon Horowitz in Damon Horowitz calls for a “moral operating system”, [12:15] TED (original: “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or...
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“Where Is Now? The Paradox Of The Present: ‘[it] exists at the fractured...”
– Adam Frank, US physicist, astronomer and writer, Department of Physics And Astronomy at University of Rochester,☞ Where Is Now? The Paradox Of The Present
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“ “Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what...”
– Jennifer Yane, Artist, Calligrapher
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“Christian Keysers on The Empathic Brain
“Mirror neurons in an...”
– Christian Keysers, neuroscientist, Professor for the Social Brain at the University Groningen in the Netherlands, Roman Krznaric on The Empathic Brain, The School of Life, July 26, 2011 (Illustration source)
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“ “Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every...”
– Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist and journalist (1819-1892) cited in Wildcat, Serendipity – Inadvertently sampling the non-obvious, Polytopia, July 25, 2011
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“ “Serendipity means Inadvertently sampling the non obvious. When we stop...”
– Wildcat, writer, futurist, Serendipity – Inadvertently sampling the non-obvious, Polytopia, July 25, 2011
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“ “There’s an art to finding something when you’re not looking...”
– William McKeen professor and chairman of the Department of Journalism at Boston University, The endangered joy of serendipity, Special to The Times, March 26, 2006
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“Malleability of Vague Information as a Performance Booster
“As William...”
– H. Mishra, A. Mishra, B. Shiv, In Praise of Vagueness: Malleability of Vague Information as a Performance Booster (pdf), Department of Marketing, University of Utah, and Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, aps, Psychological Science, XX(X) 1-6, 2011
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“If one man can show this much hate, think how much love we can show together”...”
– Speech by Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg in Oslo Cathedral after deadly attacks by a Norwegian on a self-styled mission to save European “Christendom” from Islam, July 23, 2011
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“ “In the age of super-speed broadband, we need dead trees to have fully...”
– Johann Hari, British journalist, How to survive the age of distraction, The Independent, 24 June 2011
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“Pearl Buck on the creative mind
“The truly creative mind in any field is no...”
– Pearl Buck, American writer who spent most of her time in China, the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1892-1973)
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“Pearl Buck on the creative mind
“The truly creative mind in any field is no...”
– Pearl Buck, American writer who spent most of her time until 1934 in China, the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1892-1973)
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“ “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you...”
– Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), American writer, poet, and cartoonist (1904-1991), Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!, Random House, 1975
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“ “Every time we engage with culture, we change it. Copying is an act of...”
– James Bridle, writer, publisher, editor, coder, designer, The House of Wisdom (tnx carvalhais)
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“Tim Harford on Why there will never be another Da Vinci
“Approximately ...”
– Tim Harford, English economist and journalist, Why there will never be another Da Vinci, FT.com, July 9, 2011
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“ “From what I can see, the best scientists and engineers nurture a...”
– Steve Jurvetson, Silicon Valley investor, cited in Andrew Razeghi, The riddle: where ideas come from and how to have better ones, John Wiley and Sons, 2008, p. 76.
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“David Eagleman on how we constructs reality
“The conscious mind...”
– David Eagleman, neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action and the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law, ☞ David Eagleman on how we constructs reality, time perception, and The Secret Lives of the Brain (Illustration source: David...
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“ “The first attempt in this philosophy is, to clear the mind of any innate...”
– Robert Greene, philosopher (1678-1730), The principles of the philosophy of the expansive and contractive forces, 1727
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“ “The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of...”
– David Hume, Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism (1711-1776), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding full context metaphors lib
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“ “Is the Internet in the tool kit of natural selection? That is, does the...”
– Donald Hoffman, Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, Visual Intelligence, The sculpting of human thought, Edge, The world question Center 2010, Page 6 (wildcat2030)
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“ “We were wanderers from the beginning.” ”
– Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in the space and natural sciences (1934-1996), Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, New York: Random House, 1994
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“ “This universe seems, in some sense, to be a living, evolving, adapting...”
– Edgar Mitchell, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut, Robert Staretz, The Quantum Hologram And the Nature of Consciousness, Journal of Cosmology, 2011, Vol. 14.
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“ “You afterwards become so enamoured of this offspring of your brain, that...”
– David Hume, Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism (1711-1776), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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“ “Nothing is more free than the imagination of man; and though it cannot...”
– David Hume, Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism (1711-1776), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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“Eric Friedenwald-Fishman: ‘No art? No social change. No innovation...”
– Eric Friedenwald-Fishman is the creative director/president of Metropolitan Group, No art? No social change. No innovation economy, Stanford Social Innovation Review, May 26, 2011
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“ “But the truth is, it’s not the idea, it’s never the idea,...”
– Neil Gaiman, English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films
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“ “There should be only one repository of art in the world, to which the...”
– Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer and pianist (1770-1827) in a postscript to financial negotiations (1801), Briefe Beethovens, J. G. Cotta, 1865, cited and translated by Daniel Mietchen. Illustration: Ludwig van Beethoven, Brief an Franz Anton Hoffmeister in Leipzig, Wien, 15. Januar 1801,...
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“ “One evening, contrary to my custom, I drank black coffee and could not...”
– Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and a philosopher of science (1854-1912), The Foundations of Science, 1908
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“Chris Gruhl: ‘Art is about creating a moment that people remember’...”
– Chris Gruhl’s (Shadowgolem) comment under a deleted Cartier-Bresson picture. This picture was submitted to the DeleteMe group on Flickr (whose members vote on photos) without any mention to the original author and was very quickly removed by popular vote. The photo was sold at auction in 2008...
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“Walter Benjamin on the Internet’s Impact on Cultural Memory
“Media are not just...”
– Walter Benjamin, German-Jewish intellectual, who functioned variously as a literary critic, philosopher, sociologist cited in UAH Professor Dr. Rolf Goebel Discusses the Internet’s Impact on Cultural Memory, The Exponent, Nov 11, 2010
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“ “The scientists demonstrated that the act of remembering changes our...”
– Jonah Lehrer, American journalist who writes on the topics of psychology and neuroscience, Memory is Fiction, The Frontal Cortex, June 4, 2010.
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“ “When we change the way we communicate, we change society.” ”
– Clay Shirky, American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies, Here Comes Everybody, Penguin Group, 2008
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“ “Cyberspace: A new universe, a parallel universe created and sustained by...”
– Michael Benedikt, Ph.D. in mathematics, Professor of Computing Science at University of Oxford, (1991), cited in David Bell, An Introduction to Cybercultures, Routledge, 2002, p.7.
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“ “Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic...”
– Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher (1861-1947) cited in Wildcat, The Aesthetical and Ethical application of Transhuman perception to Design, Polytopia, May 5, 2011
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“Michael Gove speaks to the Royal Society on maths and science
Euclid in...”
– Michael Gove, British Conservative politician, journalist and author, Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove speaks to the Royal Society on maths and science (full speech), 29 June 2011
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“ “What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.” ”
– Theodore Roethke, American poet, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1908-1963), (tnx devilduck, wildcat)
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“Jane Austen on memory
“If any one faculty of our nature may be called...”
– Jane Austen, English novelist whose works of romantic fiction (1775-1817), ‘Mansfield Park’, cited in Roger Highfield, 75th stories: Mapping memories - Eleanor Maguire and brain imaging, Wellcome Trust, 5 July 2011
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“ “All things would be visibly connected if one could discover at a single...”
– Georges Bataille, French writer, philosopher (1897-1962), The Solar Anus (via machinemachine)
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“ “Now, a symbol is not, properly speaking, either true or false; it is,...”
– Pierre Duhem, French physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science, best known for his writings on the indeterminacy of experimental criteria and on scientific development in the Middle Ages (1861-1916), The aim and structure of physical theory, Princeton University Press, 1991 p. 168. 