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I was greatly interested to learn that Keynes held Richard Wagner directly responsible for World War I. “Evidently the Kaiser’s conception of himself was so molded. And what was Hindenburg but the bass, and Ludendorff but the fat tenor of
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“Computers had their origin in military cryptography—in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression.”
― You
― You
“Finesse and refinement are admirable qualities, but they are not the artist’s ultimate goals; and, indeed, they can stand in the way of those goals.”
― Harvest
― Harvest
“You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences: from books, from people, from journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store. But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“While it is true that these arts employ what are, to us, highly difficult technical disciplines, it is always recognized that they are instrumental and secondary, and that superior work has the quality of an accident.”
― The Way of Zen
― The Way of Zen
“It is at this point in the book that the author famously laments that despite our ability to bring food from the earth, we are incapable of creating a system in which the hungry can be fed.”
― Μιλώντας στην κόρη μου για την οικονομία
― Μιλώντας στην κόρη μου για την οικονομία
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