Semajitation

“[S]uddenly the course of events was completely changed by one of those picturesque incidents which Statesmen ought never to neglect, often to anticipate, and sometimes perhaps to originate, because of the absurdly disproportionate power with which they appeal to the sympathies of the populace.”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

“I don't find perfection especially interesting. Art is not all about refinement and formal accomplishment. It is about passion and imagination and courage and these things that I didn't understand when I was kid being taught the rules. I realized that a novel could be. . .art could be. . . what I wanted to make it if I could pull it off.”
― Steve Erickson

“The Anthropocene is an 'Entropocene', that is, a period in which entropy is produced on a massive scale, thanks precisely to the fact that what has been liquidated and automated is knowledge, so that in fact it is no longer knowledge at all, but rather a set of closed systems, that is, entropic systems. Knowledge is an open system: it always includes a capacity for disautomatization that produces negentropy.”
― Bernard Stiegler, The Neganthropocene

“Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.”
― Liu Cixin, Death's End