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Book cover for Dune (Dune, #1)
He led me down the Hall of Portraits to the ego-likeness of the Duke Leto Atreides. I marked the strong resemblance between them—my father and this man in the portrait—both with thin, elegant faces and sharp features dominated by cold eyes. ...more
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Stewart Brand
“Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.”
Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

Stewart Brand
“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

Karl Popper
“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.”
Karl R. Popper

Nick Cave
“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.”
Nick Cave

Alain de Botton
“One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.”
Alain de Botton

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