#logic

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#age #books #changed #children #doing

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible. ↗

— Richard Powers

#becomes #been #goal #invisible #mediation

Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#also #beauty #concerned #fashion #fashionable

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#forest #genealogical #particular #soul #species

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away. ↗

— Michael Reagan

#being #biological #different #giving #me

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#between #dogmatism #limits #logic #move

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#defies #everything #here #life #life science

Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#because #dream #dream world #feel #how

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#beings #challenges #drama #earth #human