First impressions, he [Darwin] noted in one of his very last entries, were often shaped by preconceived ideas. "All mine were taken from the vivid descriptions in the Personal Narrative."
— Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Ancestry company uses deepfakes to bring old photos of your great grandma to life
— Mashable headline
It's a thesis, it's 8.5 x 11.
— paraphrase of David trying to remember something Dalma said that Spyros said on how it's best to stick to format conventions
One that they had captured was so clever that it tried to grab at the engravings in Humboldt's scientific books depicting grasshoppers and wasps. To Humboldt's amaement the monkey seemed able to distinguish engravings that showed its favorite foods – such as the insects – while the pictures of human and mammal skeletons didn't interest the titi at all.
— Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The poet's true mastery is most fully displayed if those on the outermost edges still find the poems thrilling and revealing, even though they know absolutely nothing about any of the key players.
— Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
What happened to him!? He's feral now.
— Lily on the ping-pong ball we've been watching roll around the roof of the building across the street for many months
And in the river hundreds of swans, plucked once a year for the queen's bedding and upholstery.
— Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
But as a document charged with the remembering of friends and family in the final disposition of the goods so carefully accumulated during a lifetime, Shakespeare's will—the last trace of his network of relationships.
— Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
In relation to this economic reality.
— Paul Soulellis, "Urgent Publishing After the Artist Book: Making Public in Movements Towards Liberation," CABC
For there was a first time that he glimpsed her—if not at Kenilworth, then somewhere else.
— Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
I put a pack of pickles in my pocket and it exploded yesterday... Oops some mustard just fell out... and I have a toothbrush in my pocket.
— Lily on her full pockets
This is a market that moves so fast you can barely fact-check it.
— Kenny Schachter, "Kenny Schachter Gets Sucked Into the Surreal NFT Vortex… and Makes a Fortune Overnight in the New Virtual Art Market," Artnet
I don't have anything bad to say about these things.
— Chloe speaking to my Design History & Practice class*
Tying springs, locks, pins, cartriges, and other small pieces to beads and moccasins as though they were ornaments.
— Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Carry their lives on their fingernails.
— Cochise of the Chiricahua Apaches via Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
I like to store my memories in you.
— Lily
In 2002 a senior Bush advisor told a reporter for The New York Times that journalists "believe solutions emerge from judicious study of decernable reality, but that's not the way the world works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality."
— Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
But it may not be as great as you think. That's how secrets are supposed to be.
— Min Guhong, "Fruitful Presentation"
One explanation that fits some of the evidence, if not all of it, is that the century of economic growth that had begun in 1870 had been driven by inventions, from electricity to the automobile, and was not sustainable.
— Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
It's so important.
— Lily on back massages