Thursday, June 25, 2020
Walking into that space is not going to be comfortable, but that's the space that Black people live in every day.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, conversation at The Broad
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
We keep on running up against "sameness-in-differentness", and the question
When are two things the same?
When are two things the same?
— Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
"First things are always interesting," he declared.
— David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass
Monday, June 22, 2020
Now, he added, "the whole country and the whole government have changed," and Hoover was too professional a beaurocrat to be fundamentally out of step.
— Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965
Sunday, June 21, 2020
“We all know the Trump campaign feeds on data, they are constantly mining these rallies for data,” said Ms. Laupp, who worked on several rallies for Pete Buttigieg’s campaign for the Democratic nomination for president. “Feeding them false data was a bonus. The data they think they have, the data they are collecting from this rally, isn’t accurate.”
— Taylor Lorenz, Kellen Browning and Sheera Frenkel, " TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally," The New York Times
Saturday, June 20, 2020
Apryl (your cousin)
April (the month)
architect
architecture
across
Arthur
allergy
article
April (the month)
architect
architecture
across
Arthur
allergy
article
— Words added to "Aa" page in Steck-Vaughn Writing Dictionary
Friday, June 19, 2020
So much of material and so much of the world around us that we see is programmable somehow.
— Kelli Anderson, Materials for Computer People
Thursday, June 18, 2020
I read that report . . . of the 1919 riot in Chicago, and it is as if I were reading the report of the investigating committee on the Harlem riot of ’35, the report of the investigating committee on the Harlem riot of ’43, the report of the McCone Commission on the Watts riot. I must again in candor say to you members of this Commission—it is a kind of Alice in Wonderland—with the same moving picture re-shown over and over again, the same analysis, the same recommendations, and the same inaction.
— Kenneth B. Clark, via "Police," Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
The only reason that people want to hear from people like me is because you trust me. You don't expect me to be perfect, but I don't lie to you. I'm just a guy. And I don't lie to you. And every institution, every institution that we trust, lies to us.
— Dave Chappelle, 8:46
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Then used seventy-two ceremonial pens to sign H.R. 7152 into law.
— Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965
Monday, June 15, 2020
That's a junk moth.
— Emily on a moth not worth saving
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Genie: Oh, aren't you acquainted with recursive acronyms? I thought everybody knew about them. You see, "GOD" stands for "GOD Over Djinn"—which can be expanded to "GOD Over Djinn, Over Djinn"—and that can, in turn, be expanded to "GOD Over Djinn, Over Djinn, Over Djinn"—which can, in turn, be further expanded . . . You can go as far as you like.
— Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach
Saturday, June 13, 2020
Tortoise: Really, there was nothing the matter, nothing at all. It simply couldn't reproduce the sounds on the record which I had brought him, because they were sounds that would make it vibrate and break.
— Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach
Friday, June 12, 2020
But the statements, since they're represented by means of a small and stylized set of symbols, take on the aspect of patterns. In other words, though when read aloud, they seem to be statements about numbers and their properties, still when looked at on paper, they seem to be abstract patterns—and the line-by-line structure of the proof may start to look like a slow transformation of patterns according to some few typographical rules.
— Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Understand that people like buying into interesting people.
— Justin Colt, "SVA Remote Workshop #4"
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Headquarters essentially restricted them to stenographic duties—long hours of tedium interrupted by disputes over how to distinguish one muffled voice from another over earphones. As consolation, they developed a kibitzer's interest in King's world, along with a proprietary stake in its importance.
— Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
King's aversion to "enemy-ism" isolated him in politics, especially crisis politics. Leaders routinely molded support against a villan, and for most politicians a skillfully cultivated foe could become a source of advantage, energy, idealism, even comfort.
— Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965
Monday, June 8, 2020
My gift is going to be to get you to be an accredited university so I get credit hanging out with you.
— Lily
Sunday, June 7, 2020
Epimenides was a Cretan who made one immortal statement: "All Cretans are liars."
— Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach
Saturday, June 6, 2020
As Duchamp would say on another occasion, the book was not about him—it was by Schwarz.
— Calvin Tomkins, Duchamp