#form

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#beater #conducts #improvement #more #musician

If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

#little #lower #man #only #reform

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

#bored #formerly #penalty #people #success

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform. ↗

— Eric Liu

#air force #chinese #during #force #general

Race in America has always centered on our mutual agreement not to see each other. White or non-white. Black or non-black. Mongoloid, Hindoo. We've always bought into to the crudest, humanity-denying forms of sorting. ↗

— Eric Liu

#always #america #black #bought #centered

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn. ↗

— Eric Liu

#apple #arresting #because #called #china

Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#book #characters #contributed #conventional #different

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#consists #define #determine #how #information

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#computation #computer #digital #fact #i

Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#doing #every #evolving #information #just