February 2012
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified....
– bell hooks
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You must understand words and the craft and art of putting words together to...
– Barry Moser
Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide...
– La Rochefoucauld (via John Perry Barlow)
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I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone...
– Olivia Wilde
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I remember watching a segment on Japanese TV where some independent scientist...
– Byron Aihara
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Faster-than-light neutrino results were due to a... →
proofmathisbeautiful:
cab1729:
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discoverynews:
theweekmagazine:
And not just any mistake. A LOOSE CABLE.
“There was a good reason the measurements and reality weren’t lining up: a loose fiber optic cable was causing one of the atomic clocks used to time the neutrinos’ flight to produce spurious results.”
oops
KNEW IT!
oh damn! there goes that neutrino-walks-into-a-bar...
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Second to the value of work is the willingness to fail. Faulkner said that to...
– Barry Moser
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The best advice I could possibly give you, and forgive me if this seems glib, is...
– Barry Moser
When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so...
– Rudy Rucker
… desire is full
of endless distances.
– Robert Hass, from “Meditation at Lagunitas”
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When we started we HAD no style, no understanding of ourselves or what we were...
– Teller, of Penn and Teller, in a letter at http://shwood.squarespace.com/news/2009/9/21/14-years-ago-the-day-teller-gave-me-the-secret-to-my-career.html
Strangely, advice as good for writers or musicians as it is for magicians.
(via neil-gaiman)
Good advice for anyone.
The highest quality of attention we may give is love.
– Robert Fripp
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Helsinki Bus Station Theory - Stay on the f*cking...
The Helsinki Bus Station: let me describe what happens there.
Some two-dozen platforms are laid out in a square at the heart of the city. At the head of each platform is a sign posting the numbers of the buses that leave from that particular platform. The bus numbers might read as follows: 21, 71, 58, 33, and 19.
Each bus takes the same route out of the city for a least a kilometer stopping at...
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for...
– Gloria Naylor
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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his...
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
The right thing at the wrong time is wrong. The wrong thing at the right time...
– Robert Fripp (via moredarkthanshark)
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The point of art is to transform yourself through understanding. Teach yourself...
– Miranda July (via aprill-showers)
When everyone is being very cool, uncool becomes very important.
– Brian Eno (via moredarkthanshark)
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the whole point of the flâneur’s wanderings is that he does not know what he...
– The Death of the Cyberflâneur - NYTimes.com (via johnyzuper)
This is an excellent piece that articulates well how I’ve felt about the current state of the net.
I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless...
– Boris Pasternak
I said that the more we can name what we’re seeing, the more language we have...
– Mark Doty (source; adapted from itgivesitthew)
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when...
– Albert Einstein, y’all
Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication
– Alphaville, (1965)
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