Vern Glaser

“ODYSSEUS             I cannot recommend a rigid spirit.”
― Sophocles, Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers

“Transparency once meant being able to "open the hood" to see how things worked. Now, with the Macintosh meaning of transparency dominant in the computer culture, it means quite the opposite: being able to use a program without knowing how it works.”
― Sherry Turkle, Simulation and Its Discontents

“In general, classificatory work practices involve politics, kinds of both prototypical and Aristotelian classifications, and deletion of the practices in the production of' the final formal record.”
― Geoffrey C. Bowker, Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences

“Since the time of Cain and Abel, family disputes have been marked by the irrational and impulsive decision of those involved, the fierce battles which ensue, and the senseless destruction they cause,”
― Sara G. Forden, The House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed