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Open on Are.na ↗"We can teach philosophy by teaching gardening, but we cannot teach gardening by teaching philosophy." Bill Mollison
Frank Bures, “The Fall of the Creative Class”
“[I]t may be wiser to try to create the place you want to live, rather than to keep trying to find it.”
Gilles Deleuze // "The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say... What a relie…
www.instagram.com“Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another.” ― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
Kurt Vonnegut
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I was introduced to the term by Timothy Leary when he and I were writing a book together, and I kind of fell in love with it. Neoteny is about the retention of childlike attributes in adulthood; curi…
amorebeautifulquestion.comWe can't see our culture very well, because we see with it. William Gibson
Simplicity
"So many writers write small, shallow things in a complicated, difficult style. I think what I want to do is write serious, complicated, difficult things in a very easy style that is fluid and comfort…
“I’m too old” is something we tell ourselves to save ourselves from the emotional cost of the ego deflation involved in being a beginner. Cameron, Julia. The Artist's Way (p. 138). Penguin Publishing …
New ways of thinking
“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.” — R. Buckminster Fuller
- Jenny Odell
Ideas are not products, as much as corporations would like them to be. Ideas are intersections between ourselves and something else, whether that’s a book, a conversation with a friend, or the subtle …
Clayton Christensen
“Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question – you have …
More generally, it’s not beginnings and ends that count, but middles. Things and thoughts advance or grow out from the middle, and that’s where you have to get to work, that’s where everything unfolds…
Stanislaw Lem
Any object, the simplest object, contains, potentially, an infinite amount of information. Therefore, however much we detail a transmitted description, it will always be unnecessarily precise for some…
Bonnie Friedman
“An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.” — Bonnie Friedman
From the first issue of WIRED
“in the age of information overload, THE ULTIMATE LUXURY IS MEANING AND CONTEXT.” – Louis Rossetto
www.wired.com“The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.” source: Barry H. Gillespie
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence …
“You never change things by fighting existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” - Buckminster Fuller
Michel Foucault Quote
“There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of idea…