Amanda Satchwell

“two people who were once very close can
without blame
or grand betrayal
become strangers.
perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.”
― Warsan Shire

“The sociologist Elise Boulding diagnosed the problem of our times as “temporal exhaustion”: “If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imaging the future.”
― Stewart Brand, The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility

“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.”
― Karl Popper

“Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.”
― Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built