Nestan

“When computers were vast systems of transistors and valves which needed to be coaxed into action, it was women who turned them on. When computers became the miniaturized circuits of silicon chips, it was women who assembled them . . . when computers were virtually real machines, women wrote the software on which they ran. And when computer was a term applied to flesh and blood workers, the bodies which composed them were female.”
― Sadie Plant

“Of all your work, you are still your most beautiful. The most beautiful work of all.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
― Bell Hooks

“Probably the best way to kill aesthetes is with valuable objets d’art so that in death they can still get mad over an act of vandalism.”
― Heinrich Böll, The Clown