When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
― Ansel Adams
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Category Archives: 0747 – Quote Unquote
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Anthropic is regarded as a giant among AI companies, but perhaps what it really excels in is anthropomorphism.
~ Ted Chiang via The Atlantic
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If you want to understand the deepest malfunctions of systems, pay attention to the rules and to who has power over them.
~ Donella Meadows
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The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Is your own existence so replete with equanimity you find no outlet for worry except on behalf of others?
~ Iain Banks
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The British stumbled upon an unexpectedly powerful idea: Sever the symbolism of the state from the political power of the state, and bestow those two different governing roles on two different people. Power has little majesty in the British system. Prime ministers reside in an apartment over their office. People are rude to them all the time.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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The path that leads from scathing denunciation through gradual accommodation to sycophantic embrace of Trump is a well-worn pilgrimage trail.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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It’s a life’s work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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Things aren’t different. Things are things.
~ William Gibson
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