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“do nothing in the office; why should he stay there? In plain fact, he had now become a millstone to me, not only useless as a necklace, but afflictive to bear. Yet I was sorry for him. I”
― Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
― Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
“The search for liberation is a rejection of the responsibilities of freedom in favour of a release into the irresponsibility of rights.”
― On Liberty and Its Enemies: Essays of Kenneth Minogue
― On Liberty and Its Enemies: Essays of Kenneth Minogue
“homogeneity is quite incompatible with electronic culture”
― The Gutenbery Galaxy
― The Gutenbery Galaxy
“Risk is what’s left over when you think you’ve thought of everything.”
― The Psychology of Money
― The Psychology of Money
“An age in rapid transition is one which exists on the frontier between two cultures and between conflicting technologies. Every moment of its consciousness is an act of translation of each of these cultures into the other. Today we live on the frontier between five centuries of mechanism and the new electronics, between the homogeneous and the simultaneous. It is painful but fruitful. The sixteenth century Renaissance was an age on the frontier between two thousand years of alphabetic and manuscript culture, on the one hand, and the new mechanism of repeatability and quantification, on the other.”
― The Gutenbery Galaxy
― The Gutenbery Galaxy
Ryan’s 2025 Year in Books
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