"We would drive ourselves to extinction to save $5."
Robert Kocik, poet, architect, etc.
quoted from a lecture at the Bowery Poetry Club
"Reagan was President. He was an actor. It was weird."
Fred Tomaselli, artist
quoted from a Zabar Visiting Artist lecture at Hunter College
"I like to look at what everyone is doing find some common thing that they're all assuming implicitly - but they don't even realize they're assuming - and negate that thing."
Rodney Brooks, Professor of Robotics at MIT
quoted from "Fast, Cheap & Out of Control," 1997
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Nothing sees like the human eye; granular, accurate, informed.
No machine yet projects visual reality perpetually into my brain as clearly as my eye, assuming I know what visual reality is (and for now it is what my eye tells me it is). I imagine this will not be true for too much longer.
I think that at least one critical lesson I've learned from all of my experience so far is how to confidently say "fuck you" when necessary.
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privation - a state in which things that are essential for human well-being such as food and warmth are scarce or lacking
