On Philosophy Dec 11, 2018 quotes “The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one On Teaching Dec 11, 2018 quotes ”Whoever leaves the most out is the best teacher.” Otto Neurath On Pictures Dec 11, 2018 quotes ”Remembering simplified pictures is better than forgetting exact numbers.” Otto Neurath On Pictures Dec 11, 2018 quotes ”Whatever can be shown by a picture must not be told in words.” Otto Neurath On Words Dec 11, 2018 quotes ”Words divide, pictures unite!” Otto Neurath Not Yet Attributed Dec 11, 2018 🗒 & quotes Sometimes I find or hear great quotes - but can’t attribute them, so I am collecting them here. “We are not waiting for anything at all anymore … On Change Nov 27, 2018 quotes “You never change things by fighting existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” R. This Is Not America Nov 26, 2018 quotes A little piece of you The little peace in me Will die For this is not America. David Bowie This quote was used on my 18th article for On Seeing Nov 25, 2018 quotes ”It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” Henry David Thoreau On Life Nov 24, 2018 🎥 & quotes ”If I had to live my life again, I’d do everything the same, except that I wouldn’t see The Magus.” Woody Allen On Anger Nov 24, 2018 quotes ”When anger rises, think of the consequences.” Confucius On Misbehaving Nov 24, 2018 quotes ”I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.” Orson Welles On Heroes Nov 23, 2018 quotes ”Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.” Bertolt Brecht On Twitter Nov 23, 2018 quotes “Twitter - a stalking ground for the sanctimoniously self-righteous who love to second-guess, to leap to conclusions and be offended.” Stephen On Eternity Nov 23, 2018 quotes ”Well I’m not a scientist. But I know all things begin and end in eternity.” Thomas Jerome Newton, The Man Who Fell To Earth On Ethics Nov 23, 2018 quotes ”Any field that obsesses over ‘ethics’ as a topic independent of the work is probably doing something very unethical in that work.” Annoymous On Writing Nov 21, 2018 🖋 & quotes Turn up for work. Never stop when you are stuck. Love what you do. Be honest with yourself. Don’t hold onto poor work. Take no notice of anyone On Anger Nov 20, 2018 quotes “Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.” Benjamin Franklin On Reading Nov 20, 2018 📚 & quotes “Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that On Opportunity Nov 19, 2018 quotes ”Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him” Bangambiki Habyarimana On Musicians Nov 19, 2018 🎵 & quotes “All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.” Thelonious Monk On Narcissism Nov 16, 2018 quotes “Narcissism: when one grows too old to believe in one’s uniqueness, one falls in love with one’s complexity.” JOHN FOWLES On Predictions Nov 14, 2018 quotes ”You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.” Steve Jobs On Writing Nov 12, 2018 🖋 & quotes “One can never be alone enough to write. To see better.” Susan Sontag On Music Nov 12, 2018 🎵 & quotes ”Without music life would be a mistake.” Friedrich Nietzsche On Dan Rather Nov 12, 2018 🎵 & quotes I like Dan Rather. He’s a fine newsman, an interesting person to talk to, and quite a bit nuttier than most of those media types (I consider that a On Congress Nov 12, 2018 quotes ”Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens — and then everybody disagrees.” Boris Marshalov Marshalov Perception .. Is It Reality? .. Nov 1, 2018 quotes & observations ”The level of ambition out here (California) coupled with the complete lack of irony just blows my mind.” A fellow Brit passing through ‘the On Maintenance Oct 8, 2018 quotes “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus It Didn’t Have To Be That Way Oct 8, 2018 quotes & observations ”Unlike ‘blockchain’ or ‘digital twins’, ethics and privacy are not at all new concepts. They’ve been discussion topics for philosophers and On Platforms Mar 12, 2018 quotes “A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it, exceeds the value of the company that creates it. Then it’s a platform.” Bill Work. Though Not In Praise Of It. Feb 28, 2018 quotes & internet.thoughts “Why do we work so long and so hard? The mystery here is not that we are required to work or that we are expected to devote so much time and energy 🎵 What Might Have Been Feb 28, 2018 🎵 & quotes & internet.thoughts ”The group that might have “done a Radiohead” if they’d had a single like Creep. And if they’d been younger when they started making proper On Next Year Dec 31, 2015 quotes ”more deep less shallow; more writing less busy; more walking less flying; more music less noise; more garden less food; more laughs less sighs; On Revolution Dec 31, 2015 quotes “It’s not a revolution if nobody loses.” Clay Shirky via Stoweboyd via Stowe Boyd On Oppression Dec 31, 2015 quotes ”People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” Aldous Huxley On Power and Capital Dec 31, 2015 quotes “Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.” Hannah Arendt, The Origins of On Control Dec 4, 2015 quotes “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell On Powerful Ideas May 18, 2015 quotes ”Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo