smays.com

A place where I publish what I notice.

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Asides

  • If you never get a visible tattoo, no one will ever know what shitty taste you have.
  • “Few people can say: I am here. They look for themselves in the past and see themselves in the future.” — Georges Braque (1882–1963)
  • "Teamwork is what you call it when you trick other people into ignoring their priorities in favor of yours." -- Scott Adams (2006)
  • "You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.” – George Orwell (1984)
  • “If reality TV has taught us anything, it’s you can’t keep people with no values down.” -- 30 Rock
  • “No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.” –Arthur C. Clarke
  • “I am tormented, or tantalized, by the sense that I am almost in view of something that is at the limit of my comprehension.” — Neal Stephenson’s Anathem (pg 543)
  • "The great ones are indifferent, in the profoundest sense. They don’t ask you to believe: they electrify you by their behavior."-- Henry Miller (Sexus)
  • “PowerPoint is corporate karaoke” -- William Gibson or John Perry Barlow (2009)
  • “Imagine that you could collect all the DNA from the world’s population of six billion people. It would weigh only as much as a single grain of rice.” — The Divine Code of Life
  • History was stored data, subject to manipulation and interpretation.” — All Tomorrow’s Parties by William Gibson
  • “My optimism is like an old cat that likes to disappear for days, but I always expect it to return.” — Scott Adams
  • “Why are most people who are against abortion people you wouldn’t want to fuck in the first place?” — George Carlin
  • “AI that we will confront is not going to be a mind in an individual machine. It will not be something we look at as other. It may well be us.” — Tim O’Reilly (2015)
  • “Any information system of sufficient complexity will inevitably become infected with viruses — viruses generated from within itself.” — Snow Crash
  • It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other.” -- George Orwell
  • “Hybridization with human consciousness was an unanticipated result of attempting to reproduce advanced skill sets.” - AGENCY by William Gibson
  • “Kind of a digital mini-self, able to fill in when the user can’t be online.” -- AGENCY by William Gibson
  • “Interesting how decisions have a way of making themselves if you just get out of their way.” (paraphrasing) — Hit and Run (Lawrence Block)
  • “So it turned out you didn’t have to forget things, not really. You just relaxed your grip on them and they floated off by themselves.” — Hit and Run (Lawrence Block)