It is Late and I am Very Tired
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photo credit: Michael Connell
No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.
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photo credit: square eyes
A man who is equipped like a territory is no longer an inhabitant; he becomes a habitat.
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Poor folk love their cellphones!
Bruce Sterling (allegedly).
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photo credit: william couch
Cities are the best battlesuits we have.
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photo credit: [ henning ]
The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with cylinder oil, and coat their outsides with sprayed rubber film, and let them statically await the next emergency.
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Never take the appropriate next step. Talk about Chinese urban design, the European space program, the landscape in the films of Alfred Hitchcock in the span of three sentences – because it’s fun, and the juxtapositions might take you somewhere. Most importantly, follow your lines of interest.