Friday, December 21, 2012
He is not just an explorer or a measurer.
— Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Some people tell me this story is a fantasy. And I ask them: If it is, then what did I do during my ten days at sea?
— Gabriel García Márquez, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
I’ll be good.
— Kid Cudi, MGMT, Ratatat, “Pursuit of Happiness”
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
For somebody on whom to throw away superfluous interest, and even tenderness.
— Thomas Hardy, The Distracted Preacher
Monday, December 17, 2012
The level of detail at which we are now able to recognize morphological complexities is such that morphology can be said to display a form that is quasi-discrete. Behavior, on the other hand (with perhaps exceptions for the most extreme types), may well display a form that our present investigative techniques are only able to recognize as quasi-continuous. The nature of the relationship between these two may therefore be considered less an algebraic equation as above and more as a topological mapping of a relatively complicated type where there is a considerable lack of one-to-one correspondence between the sets.
— Charles Oxnard, Uniqueness and Diversity in Human Evolution
Sunday, December 16, 2012
I am happy when I do something I like.
I am happy when I’m with someone I like.
I am happy because I like myself.
I am happy when I’m with someone I like.
I am happy because I like myself.
— Terry Berger, I Have Feelings
Saturday, December 15, 2012
About getting to know her without understanding what she is.
— James Lovelock, Gaia
Friday, December 14, 2012
I will buy you a new car.
— Everclear, “I Will Buy You A New Life”
Thursday, December 13, 2012
The monkey in the wrench.
— John McClane, Die Hard
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
They are much greater than anything I will say about them.
— P. Adams Sitney
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
If I could be anything these days I would be a hip hop artist.
— Lucia Allais
Monday, December 10, 2012
I’m always a fan of straight copying, and then you can interpret. It’s always going to have your voice no matter what.
— Sarah Gephart
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Searching up to the sky and looking beneath the ground.
— Matisyahu, “King Without A Crown”
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Is it something you missed?
— The xx, “Chained”
Friday, December 7, 2012
I’m a good worker. I worked cable tool rigs, built railroad.
— Henry, There Will Be Blood
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Note
The original transcript has been dry-cleaned and repaired.
The original transcript has been dry-cleaned and repaired.
— Mark Wigley, “Story-Time”
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
The introduction of the problem of meaning within the process of design in such a systematic and conscious way. Such an approach might be seen as a “neo-functionalism.”
— Mario Grandelsonas, “Neo-Functionalism”
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
The return to language is a proof of failure.
— Manfredo Tafuri, The Sphere and the Labrynth
Monday, December 3, 2012
But I feel big because my atoms came from those stars. There’s a level of connectivity. That’s really what you want in life, you want to feel connected, you want to feel relevant, you want to feel like you’re a participant in the goings on of activities and events around you. That’s precisely what we are just by being alive.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, “The Most Astounding Fact”
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Why take a “path that is no longer a path,” especially if it only leads to self-description?
— Manfredo Tafuri, The Sphere and the Labrynth