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“It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light.”
― The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics
― The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him—he has known a fear beyond every other.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy’s habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place, or product.”
― Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students
― Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
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