#ip

Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#aptly #combined #description #enrichment #illustrate

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#explain #impossible #invoking #pattern #principle

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#antagonism #dialectical #equilibrium #evil #extremes

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#around #black #circle #dead #drag

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#broke #calculation #child #cold #front

What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you've got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top. ↗

— Michael Bay

#breaks #business #challenges #director #fast

I said, wouldn't it be nice, instead of having these women fight with each other over men, which seems to be more of a cliche, wouldn't it be wonderful if they were the true comrades and it took these men much more time to infiltrate their friendships. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#cliche #comrades #each #fight #friendships

I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day? ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#day #dodger #get #going #how

I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#been #doing #find #going #happen

Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#activity #because #been #book #brain