May 2009
8 posts
“Calvino was brave because he sat down to write what interested him - not what...”
– Jeanette Winterson, An exploration of seminal novelist Italo Calvino, through his writing
“When a writer regrets something that he or she has written, if it is fiction, it...”
– Jeanette Winterson, An exploration of seminal novelist Italo Calvino, through his writing
“[You] cannot have a healthy diet without a healthy agriculture.”
– Michael Pollan, Deep Agriculture (mp3)
“In the digital space, the Map creates the Territory.”
– Andrew Hinton, You are (Mostly) Here: Digital Space & The Context Problem (mp3)
“[F]inance is America’s biggest industry - our biggest business sector. How...”
– Douglas Rushkoff,
Debt is not a good product
“Code which is too tricky is too often wrong.”
– Douglas Crockford, JavaScript: The Good Parts (Video, quote is at 20:14)
“This is the landscape of corporatism: a world not merely dominated by...”
– Douglas Rushkoff,
Life Inc
“The status quo is selfishness, and the toxically wealthy are our new heroes...”
– Douglas Rushkoff,
Life Inc