Homepage Quotes
Here are quotes that randomly circulate on the homepage:
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Our generation caused it; it's up to your generation to fix it.
Dinner Conversation, 14 September 2007Speech is action, not simply a sign of supposedly pre-existing thought. The words can be powerful and magical.
Discourse Analysis, pg 199A hungry man, a downtrodden man, must be shown as he is, with his own first and last names.
A Thesis on NeorealismIn the end, all these power and language games are ultimately about securing a little bit of eternity and staving off death and oblivion.
Reaction Journal Feedback, 16 March 2010We're not living for our house, we're living in our house.
One who doesn't fall doesn't rise.
Emelianenko vs Werdum, 26 June 2010The computer is the height of human technology, our most powerful creation. It allows someone to do a life time of a certain kind of work in the blink of an eye, and computer science is the art of controlling that invention.
Expect it - don't define it.
Sharing New Worlds, 13 January 2009Without leaving the place where he has no choice but to live and which lays down its law for him, he establishes within it a degree of plurality and creativity. By an art of being in between, he draws draws unexpected results from his situation.
The Practice of Every Day Life, pg 30The universe is perfect.
Carry the one!
Calculus & Life Advice, Fall 2008Funny thing about life is it's a big game, yet it's all practice.
Quo vadis?
The main thing is to seize life and live it with all the passion in you.
Email regarding The Doorway, 16 February 2008Resist the impulse to be poetic. The poetry is there in the simplicity of honest expression.
Teachings, 18 February 2008Money follows ignorance and graft in the two faced world of the painted word. I suggest we all respond with a word of our own.
Stay up on your toes. Make sure you write your film like a dancer on point.
Email, 26 January 2013If we do not talk differently, we shall not think differently.
Ill Fares the Land, pg 171A closed circle of opinion or ideas into which discontent or opposition is never allowed—or allowed only within circumscribed and stylized limits—loses its capacity to respond energetically or imaginatively to new challenges.
Ill Fares the Land, pg 157The moral courage required to hold a different view and to press it upon irritated readers or unsympathetic listeners remains everywhere in short supply.
Ill Fares the Land, pg 160A great artist is a great man in a great child.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.