#cop

If “piracy” means using value from someone else’s creative property without permission from that creator–as it is increasingly described today – then every industry affected by copyright today is the product and beneficiary of a certain kind of piracy. Film, records, radio, cable TV… Extremists in this debate love to say “You wouldn’t go into Barnes & Noble and take a book off of the shelf without paying; why should it be any different with online music?” The difference is, of course, that when you take a book from Barnes & Noble, it has one less book to sell. By contrast, when you take an MP3 from a computer network, there is not one less CD that can be sold. The physics of piracy of the intangible are different from the physics of piracy of the tangible. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#piracy #love

Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way into the world. ↗

— ryan fitzpatrick

#algorithm #coalescence #copulation #flarf #inheritance-cycle

The dirty secret she’d learned about grief was that nobody wanted to hear about your loss a week after the funeral. People you’d once considered friends would turn their heads in church or cross to another side of a shopping mall to avoid the contamination of your suffering. “You might imagine I’m coping day by day,” she murmured. “But it’s more a case of hour by hour, and during my worst times, minute by minute. ↗

— Susan Dormady Eisenberg

#grief #grieving #suffring #imagination

If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#coping #difficulties #mountain #mountains #obstacle

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document. ↗

— Renata Adler

#destroys #document #ever #only #person

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#artist #both #cannot #copy #ends

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue. ↗

— Francis Arinze

#around #copy #culture #tendency #today

Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people "the cops." But you know, sometimes, you've just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school! ↗

— Dave Attell

#call #choice #cops #driving #drunk

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#ideally #material #more #possibly #should

I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#find #helicopter #i #job #nice