Harold Gibbons

“After you’ve nodded the head forward a bit to open the throat, work to lift the head toward the sky as you also try to move it toward the wall behind you…without lifting the chin.”
― Katy Bowman, Rethink Your Position: Reshape Your Exercise, Yoga, and Everyday Movement, One Part at a Time

“When we make a neural net to distinguish cats from dogs we don’t effectively have to write a program that (say) explicitly finds whiskers; instead we just show lots of examples of what’s a cat and what’s a dog”
― Stephen Wolfram, What Is ChatGPT Doing... and Why Does It Work?

“As Joshua Jelly-Schapiro said one day, every map is a story, and by implication every story contains a map. I loved maps for a long time, but it wasn’t until I made them and put them out in the world that I discovered how not alone I was. People love maps. There is a special incandescent joy to how they respond to a good map that is different from the way I’ve seen people to respond to any other art form. They light up. They get greedily engrossed. They start tracing possibilities, thinking, interpreting, measuring: maps demand work, and this kind of cerebral work can be exhilarating. By a good map I mean an aesthetic one, a map that is an invitation to the imagination, a map that offers a fresh view of the familiar or an introduction to the unfamiliar or finds the latter in the former. If every map is a story, most of them are mysteries that invite you to solve them while remaining forever unresolved, in that they indicate more - more past, more future, more adventure, more travelers. They have an openness, indicating more than they depict.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas

“A map is great if you’re the kind of person who prefers to walk roads that already exist.”
― Craig D Lounsbrough