#Quote
“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.”
— Rollo May
#Quote #QuoteOfTheDay
"Isn't the meaning of a piece of art, not the one that we gave it, but the one it is likely to take in relation to what surrounds it?"
André Breton, Les pas perdus.
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self-interest.” ~ John Glenn
It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation.
-- Alexander Berkman
Which is the quickest way out of here? <the women all point in different directions> Yes, well, that's democracy for you.
— The Doctor, in “Castrovalva”
“To want nothing. Just to wait, until there is nothing left to wait for. Just to wander, and to sleep. To let yourself be carried along by the crowds, and the streets. To follow the gutters, the fences, the water’s edge. To walk the length of the embankments, to hug the walls. To waste your time. To have no projects, to feel no impatience. To be without desire, or resentment, or revolt.”
― Georges Perec
#quote #GeorgesPerec
“To replace programmers with AI, clients will need to accurately describe what they want. We’re safe.” — Milan Milanović
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#Development #AI #Chatbots #Business #Client #Programing #WebDevelopment #WebDev #Frontend #Backend #Code #Quote
Revolution can never stop.
-- John Cage
“The ship lay in Boston harbor. A party of colonists boarded the vessel, behaved very rudely, and threw all the tea overboard. This made the tea unsuitable for drinking. Even for Americans." #quote
Today's #quote is:
"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness."
(Allen Ginsberg, writer)
Do you know when you are following your inner moonlight?
"So, you have tuppence! May I be permitted to see it?”
"No, I want it to feed the birds!”
"Fiddlesticks, boy! Feed the birds, and what have you got? FAT BIRDS!” #quote
The elephant swam to the island ahead of the Count's own skiff, and landed at exactly 3:00 PM.
— From “Death and Venice” in ENDLESS NIGHTS
I envy the savages. And I will cry to them in a loud voice: "Save yourselves, civilization is coming."
-- Bruno Filippi
"The characteristic excellence of mathematics is only to be found where the reasoning is rigidly logical : the rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture." – Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
#quote #mathematics #math #maths
When the sun is out☀️ I am able to share some of my tattoos that I purposely chose to bring positive energy in my surroundings.
Just by seeing 👀this mantra, sentient beings move closer to enlightenment☯️
It’s The Earth Store Bodhisattva’s (Ksitigarbha) Heart Mantra.
Namaste🙏🏽
"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart." Washington Irving #QOTD #quote #Friendship
"Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves." - Thomas Moore
#quote #quoteoftheday #quotestoliveby #Freedom #Slavery #YesIhadtolookupwhatfustianmeant #BeingHuman
I dislike communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.
-- Bertrand Russell
“I am absolutely, utterly and completely certain that God wouldn’t be homophobic. I really would much rather go to Hell that go to a homophobic heaven.”
—Archbishop Desmond Tutu
#QOTD #quote #quoteoftheday
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius ...
— Watson, in “The Valley of Fear”
"We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action." – Dr. Henry Link
#quote #quotes #fear #fears #action #motivation #mindset #inspiration #coaching
The individualist anarchist critiques to free themselves and others.
-- Emile Armand
"It is not only its use, but #technology itself that already constitutes domination (over nature and over people), a domination that is methodical, scientific, calculated and calculating. It is not only after the fact, and from outside, that certain ends and interests specific to domination are imposed on technology - these ends and interests are already part of the constitution of the technical apparatus itself. From the outset, technology is an entire socio-historical project."
#Quote from Herbert Marcuse, taken from his #book #Industrialisation and #Capitalism, 1964.
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#progress #governance #technocriticism #ethics #engineering #science #quotes #AIEthics #digitalization #tech #techEthics @ethics
QUEEN ELIZABETH: Stay, yet look back with me unto the Tower.
Pity, you ancient stones, those tender babes
Whom envy hath immured within your walls!
Rough cradle for such little pretty ones!
Rude ragged nurse, old sullen playfellow
For tender princes, use my babies well!
So foolish sorrow bids your stones farewell.
— Richard III, IV, i
“Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.”
— Norman Cousins
#Quote #QuoteOfTheDay
I stubbornly persist in my opposition to the state. But not because, as anarchists so often thoughtlessly declaim, the state is not "necessary". Ordinary people dismiss this anarchist assertion as ludicrous, and so they should. Obviously, in an industrialized class society like ours, the state is necessary.
-- Bob Black
SLENDER: But if there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another.
— The Merry Wives of Windsor, I, i
The man who would completely isolate himself from his fellow men, would return to the state of a brute animal, if the better armed species had not killed him before.
-- Jean Grave
“Professionalism is caring more than is reasonable to get it right.” — Dan Saffer
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#Design #Business #Design #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDevelopment #WebDev #Quote
“我想這個世界有時實在太小，不足以約束孩子們的心。” — 林語堂 #quote
Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
#quote #leadership
The "government of all the people", if we have to have government, can at best be only the government of the majority.
-- Errico Malatesta
Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped. ~~ Andy Weir
#quote
“They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains,” he remarked with a smile. “It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.”
— Sherlock Holmes, in “A Study in Scarlet”
"Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world." – Marcus du Sautoy (1965–)
#quote #mathematics #math #maths
"I write because I've got too many f—ing stories in my head. And it's fun."
- Tom Hanks, speaking about his latest book, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
We've all got a story or 10 floating around, it's just a matter of getting them out. 📝
#books #writing #TomHanks #quote @bookstodon@a.gup.pe
The fact that Sacco and Vanzetti were murdered although obviously innocent proves only one thing: that the concept of innocence and guilt is not an objective fact but is a measure imposed by the class struggle.
-- Alfredo Bonanno
#quote | «The pressing ethical questions in machine learning are not about machines becoming self-aware and taking over the world, but about how people can exploit other people, or through carelessness introduce immoral behavior into automated systems».
precise and beautiful.
thanks for sharing @cogdog @epilepticrabbit
The state, therefore, is the most flagrant, the most cynical, and the most complete negation of humanity.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
In our so very civilized society it is necessary for me to live the life of a savage. I must be free, even of governments.
-- Gustave Courbet
I consider it immoral to be a supporter of a power system.
-- Noam Chomsky
The oppression of one is the oppression of all, and we cannot violate the liberty of one being without violating the freedom of all of us.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
-- Oscar Wilde
@radicalresilience
This is when #Quote posts are needed to highlight amazing stuff like this!
#LongCovid #CFS
“Your paper on DNA synthesis was quite remarkable for your age.”
“A promising youngster, huh?”
“No, no; I mean for the age that you live in.”
— The Doctor and Professor Jones, in “The Green Death”
If today we fall without compromising, we can be sure of victory tomorrow.
-- Errico Malatesta
If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.
-- William Godwin
We don't have faith; we have absolutely no confidence in our success.
-- Albert Libertad
Durch das seltener werden der blauen Punkte erweiterte sich unsere Definiton von Blau. — Make Europa Gscheit Again
Erweiterung der Definition von Blau: https://www.draketo.de/zitate#erweiterung-definition-von-blau
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.
-- Oscar Wilde
“We resist the notion that we’ll become mere handfuls of dust, so we wish to become words instead. Breath in the mouths of others.”
- Margaret Atwood, “Old Babes in the Wood”
“My name is Romanadvoratrelundar.”
“I'm so sorry about that. Is there anything we can do?”
— Romana and the Doctor, in “The Ribos Operation”
Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
-- Emma Goldman
@Radical_EgoCom It's false, the rich are productive. They produce misery.
The fight against the destruction of surplus product and against hoarding in Brazil cannot be carried out through the state, but through consumer cooperatives, which affiliated with powerful federations, will be able to deliver to the market and finance production and regulate prices on a fair basis.
-- Mario Ferreira dos Santos
The state is nothing but this domination and this exploitation, well regulated and systematised.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people.
-- Boris Vian
At the base of contemporary capitalist society lies the principle of private property, owing to which society is divided into two fundamental classes -- the capitalists and the proletariat.
-- Gregori Maximoff
“Why do you suppose they're fighting?”
“I haven't the remotest idea, my boy. No doubt their reasons will be entirely adequate.”
— Steven and the Doctor, in “The Myth Makers”
I can't see coherent political structures in the traditional sense lasting beyond the next twenty years, I don't think that would be possible.
-- Alan Moore
Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
-- Susan B. Anthony
ICYMI: Privacy-conscious and accessible #Quote Tooting, now available at https://elk.fedified.com — no need to change servers, and visible in all Mastodon clients.
The critical human flaw is not that as a species we're particularly aggressive. It's that we tend to respond to aggression very poorly.
-- David Graeber
Just updated https://elk.fedified.com to sync up with the main Elk repo, so now you get #quote toots plus all of the under-the-hood improvements. I also added a new "Dim mode" -- it's a theme that uses a blue hue with yellow-orange accents. It's a little more accessible to persons with certain kinds of color blindness.
To access the new mode/theme:
On desktop - click on the icon on the bottom right corner of the screen
On mobile - click settings, then "Toggle mode"
OK, so, what if you had #quote toots that were accessible and visible on all Mastodon clients **and** the app *also* automatically expanded links to *any public* Mastodon post that happens to appear on your timeline. And that linked post were fully interactive, so you could see all the images, follow the author, click through to reply, etc.? And all of this were done within Mastodon's existing privacy framework?
Sound good? Check it out at https://elk.fedified.com
https://fedified.com/users/DataDrivenMD/statuses/110398034263397484
It is from the love of humanity that we are revolutionaries: it is not our fault if history has forced on us this distressing necessity.
-- Errico Malatesta
“Don’t waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power—it’s time.” ~ David Crosby
@supernovae @stux While you wait for official Mastodon support for #quote posts, check out the Elk fork hosted at https://elk.fedified.com. It's an implementation that preserves the original author's privacy preferences while optimizing for accessibility
https://universeodon.com/users/supernovae/statuses/110406810957463994
Direct action is the logical, consistent method of anarchism.
-- Emma Goldman
“Calling it ‘content’ was the first step in convincing people that machines could make it.” — Peter Ramsey
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#Design #AI #ML #Chatbot #ProductDesign #UxDesign #DigitalDesign #WebDesign #WebDevelopment #Website #Blog #Content #Human #Machine #Quote
“As designers, we’re not just creating products. We’re creating a language, a dialogue with users that transcends the screen. A conversation that starts with a user’s first click and evolves with every interaction.” — Dylan Field
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#Design #Language #ProductDesign #UxDesign #IxDesign #UiDesign #DigitalDesign #WebDesign #Communication #Interaction #User #Quote
"It is also crucial for us to recognize that it is equally valid for a trans person to decide to transition and live as the other sex as it is for them to instead choose to blur gender boundaries and identify themselves outside the gender binary. There is no one right way to be trans. Each of us simply needs to figure out what works best for us and what allows us to best express who we feel we are." - Julia Serano – Whipping Girl
"And by the time I made the decision to transition, my gender dissonance had gotten so bad that it completely consumed me; it hurt more than any pain, physical or emotional, that I had ever experienced. I know that most people believe that transsexuals transition because we want to be the other sex, but that is an oversimplification." - Julia Serano – Whipping Girl
The awesome thing about open source is that, license permitting, you can build WTF you want. In this case, I added #quote toots to the amazing (and delightfully elegant) Elk client. It's still a work in progress, but you can try it out today-- no need to change servers or anything. Just log on at https://elk.fedified.com
“The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.” ~Alan Watts
“Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.” — Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?” - Rabbi Hillel
"All fanaticism is repressed doubt." - Carl Jung
"One’s point of view makes all the difference in the world. There is a famous story of the days when Sir Christopher Wren was building St. Paul’s Cathedral. On one occasion he was making a tour of the work in progress. He came upon a man at work and asked him: “What are you doing?” The man said: “I am cutting this stone to a certain size and shape.” He came to a second man and asked him what he was doing. The man said: “I am earning so much money at my work.” He came to a third man at work and asked him what he was doing. The man paused for a moment, straightened himself and answered: “I am helping Sir Christopher Wren build St. Paul’s Cathedral.” (Source Unknown)
"To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody but yourself - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight - and never stop fighting." - E. E. Cummings
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
"A strong military, a tool of misfortune
All things detest it" - Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, chapter 31
“Research without insights and insights without action don’t count.” — Pavel A. Samsonov
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#Design #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #UserResearch #Usability #Accessibility #Insight #Action #Quote
The critical human flaw is not that as a species we're particularly aggressive. It's that we tend to respond to aggression very poorly.
-- David Graeber
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena Speech
“Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.” ~ Bertrand Russell
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.” - Henry David Thoreau
(this quote is often incompletely given)
"I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account; for, beside that before he has fairly learned it I may have found out another for myself, I desire that there may be as many different persons in the world as possible; but I would have each one be very careful to find out and pursue his own way, and not his father's or his mother's or his neighbor's instead." - Henry David Thoreau
“It is still impressive how far ahead Macromedia Flash was in terms of interactivity and design on the web. To this day, we’re still trying to do the same things we did 20 years ago with Flash.” — Tobias Schneider
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#Design #FlashTechnology #ProductDesign #UxDesign #IxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #WebDevelopment #WebDev #HTML #CSS #JavaScript #Flash #Interaction #Animation #Evolution #Quote
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into." - Jonathan Swift
"Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves." - Leto Atreides II (Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune)
"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted." - Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune) ("Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it.")
"Humans are a collective organism, and that organism performs best when its members recogize their common interests." - Sisterhood Training Manual (Brian Herbert, Mentats of Dune)
“I wear my heart on my sleeve and that can hurt. To be vulnerable is an enriching way to live, but when it goes wrong it can be agonizing. But if you don't open your heart to people, you end up being excluded from the rest of the world.” - #KeanuReeves
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or engineer.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
"No, that's the point. I grok people. I am people ... so now I can say it in people talk. I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much ... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting." - Valentine Michael Smith - Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” - Anonymous (many different attributions)
"I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness." - Rebecca Solnit (Wanderlust: A History of Walking)
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson or Elbert Hubbard
"the law is a ass — a idiot." - Mr Bumble (Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist)