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Book cover for A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations
A traditional home in Japan—a classical self—is all shifting panels and self-contained compartments. Even as the absence of locks and curtains keeps the individual aware at every moment that she’s part of a larger whole.
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Ken Liu
“I can tell you a secret about life: once you realize how insignificant the individual is in the vastness of space-time, you can face anything.”
Ken Liu, Broken Stars

Ken Liu
“But the real attraction of such technology has never been about capturing reality. Photography, videography, holography... the progression of such “reality-capturing” technology has been a proliferation of ways to lie about reality, to shape and distort it, to manipulate and fantasize. People shape and stage the experiences of their lives for the camera, go on vacations with one eye glued to the video camera. The desire to freeze reality is about avoiding reality.”
Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

Bruce Lee
“The key to liberation is within. — Each man binds himself; the fetters are ignorance, laziness, preoccupation with self, and fear. He must liberate himself, while accepting the fact that we are of this world, so that “In summer we sweat; in winter we shiver.”
Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Roger McNamee
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. —ALDOUS HUXLEY”
Roger McNamee, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

Haruki Murakami
“The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.”
Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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