Tuesday, December 29, 2020
By 1960, anyone who wanted to find out what had happened over the course of the day could watch the evening news on television. It was easy to perceive this as a race, in which case, the best strategy is: speed up. But the best newspapers realized that it really wasn't a race, and that the newspapers' best strategy would be: go deeper... No longer merely chronicling events but instead investigating and analyzing them
— Jill Lepore, If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Monday, December 28, 2020
The Schlesingers' backyard bordered the Galbraiths' backyard.
— Jill Lepore, If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Sunday, December 27, 2020
Rabbit book
— Google suggested search term "based on your recent activity" after I typed "Rabbit"
Saturday, December 26, 2020
The question begs an inescapably poignant truth of the kind that dims so many other pioneering achievements in fields that extend beyond and are quite unrelated to this one. The reality, as seen from today's perspective, is simply: However distinguished... and however masterfuly... their achievements seem nowadays to have been only stepping-stones, and their magnificent volumes of work very little more than curios, to be traded, hoarded, and forgotten.
— Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman
Friday, December 25, 2020
I found myself all of a sudden saying to him: "It's just a computer. It's really a small thing in the world you know."
— Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine
Thursday, December 24, 2020
Rasala once remarked, “Yeah, the further you get from doing it yourself, the more demons you see.
— Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
With tiny changes made to the domain names — like penguinrandornhouse.com instead of penguinrandomhouse.com, an “rn” in place of an “m.”
— Elizabeth A. Harris and Nicole Perlroth, "Why on Earth Is Someone Stealing Unpublished Book Manuscripts?," The New York Times
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Don't forget I'm a poet and my nose shows it. It's a Longfellow.
— Sid
Monday, December 21, 2020
I use a mechanical pencil and I clicked it and it went out two inches on me.
— Spectrum customer service person over the phone explaining why they said "oh!"
Sunday, December 20, 2020
Bad writing.
— Lily
Saturday, December 19, 2020
That's gonna be traumatic. She's never going to forget that. But i'm going to forget about it tomorrow.
— Lily after we helped a woman in a minor accident on the highway.
Friday, December 18, 2020
Scholarship by walking around.
— Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Thursday, December 17, 2020
He has to assume that communications about this matter are being read by Russia, and assume that any government data or email could be falsified.
— Thomas P. Bossert, "I Was the Homeland Security Adviser to Trump. We’re Being Hacked," The New York Times
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
A thing so large that no one else cared to tackle it.
— Edward Curtis via Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
And, of course, it was art as well, a subjective look, by the very nature of how and where he pointed the camera.
— Edward Curtis via Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Monday, December 14, 2020
And one part mercenary, for both men knew their access to this lost world could fill a lecture hall later.
— Edward Curtis via Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Sunday, December 13, 2020
Best kept secret.
— Lily on the fact that she likes Steampunk
Saturday, December 12, 2020
It is essentially like my vehicle for experiencing all of the wide spectrum of emotions that we all have. You know, it's my vehicle for exploring fear. it's my vehicle for exploring achievement and sucess and ego and confidence any you know, I think you could really use anything in order to expereince and explore those emotions, but everyone I think in some ways is trying to find what their vehicle is to explore those emotions.
— Emily Harrington, "The Joe Rogan Experience #1571 - Emily Harrington"
Friday, December 11, 2020
It's really just that's what people gravitate towards unfortunately... They figured out how humans work but they're not trying to divide us... The misconception is that they're devising these algorithms to make sure people fight.
— Joe Rogan, "The Joe Rogan Experience #1577 - Terry Virts"
Thursday, December 10, 2020
By being not that designed, it suggests that it's just news.
— Andrew Sondern
