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"This.... should be required reading of any hetero cismale, or any woman who wants to be with them... but it's not. Few people know how to communicate this stuff, myself included (although I've tried, probably very poorly), and I have no doubt it tears people apart." — May 29, 2018 06:36PM
"This.... should be required reading of any hetero cismale, or any woman who wants to be with them... but it's not. Few people know how to communicate this stuff, myself included (although I've tried, probably very poorly), and I have no doubt it tears people apart." — May 29, 2018 06:36PM
“You know what your trouble is? You're the kind who
always reads the handbook. Anything people build,
any kind of technology, it's going to have some specific
purpose. It's for doing something that somebody already
understands. But if it's new technology, it'll open
areas nobody's ever thought of before. You read the manual,
man, and you won't play around with it, not the same way.
And you get all funny when somebody else uses it to do
something you never thought of.”
―
always reads the handbook. Anything people build,
any kind of technology, it's going to have some specific
purpose. It's for doing something that somebody already
understands. But if it's new technology, it'll open
areas nobody's ever thought of before. You read the manual,
man, and you won't play around with it, not the same way.
And you get all funny when somebody else uses it to do
something you never thought of.”
―
“Imagine others complexly.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory. I also suspect that you don’t know it, because, as anthropologists tell us, one cannot know one’s own culture.”
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“One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn’t as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy”
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“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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