One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. - Amos Bronson Alcott
The wise speak only of what they know.
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. - Gandalf the Grey
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen. - John Jay Chapman
there is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening - Marshall McLuhan
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. - Henry David Thoreau
… an algorithmic “honing in” would seem to incrementally entomb me as an ever-more stable image of what I like and why. It certainly makes sense from a business point of view. When the language of advertising and personal branding enjoins you to “be yourself,” what it really means is “be more yourself,” where “yourself” is a consistent and recognizable pattern of habits, desires, and drives that can be more easily advertised to and appropriated, like units of capital. In fact, I don’t know what a personal brand is other than a reliable, unchanging pattern of snap judgements: “I like this” and “I don’t like this,” with little room for ambiguity or contradiction. - Jenny Odell
… it matters what ideas we use to think other ideas (with). - Marilyn Strathern
It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories. - Donna J. Haraway