Nathan > Nathan's Quotes

“From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.”
― Donna Haraway

“The linking of rationality with mysticism, knowability with what is unknown, makes it a powerful fetish that offers its programmers and users alike a sense of empowerment, of sovereign subjectivity, that covers over-barely-a sense of profound ignorance.”
― Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory

“In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.”
― Buckminster R. Fuller

“Dare to be naïve.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

“Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants:
Increasing efficiency
Increasing opportunity
Increasing emergence
Increasing complexity
Increasing diversity
Increasing specialization
Increasing ubiquity
Increasing freedom
Increasing mutualism
Increasing beauty
Increasing sentience
Increasing structure
Increasing evolvability”
― Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants

“It doesn’t matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice.”
― Steve Krug, Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

“Get rid of half the words on each page, then get rid of half of what’s left.”
― Steve Krug, Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“When everyone zigs, zag”
― Stephen Anderson