Quotes
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Robin Sloan in Syntheizers as Utopian Technologies
This recalls the early days of synthesizers; what was Switched-On Bach if not “I see what you did there”? I hope that analogy is right, because the synth provides a healthy, sustainable template for these tools (AI). Ubiquitous and unremarkable, controllable and hackable, with flavors ranging from fully corporate to gloriously DIY … I’m realizing, as I…
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John MacIntosh on Finance Aesthetics
Finance is everywhere in the cultural imaginary; it represents itself largely on its own terms, a set of appearances that do not correspond to its practise. John MacIntosh, Finance Aesthetics
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Edward Tufte on Interface Design
No matter how beautiful your interface is, it would be better if there were less of it. Edward Tufte
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Louis-Armand de Lom d’Arce on Canadian Winters
To survive the Canadian winter, one needs a body of brass, eyes of glass, and blood made of brandy. Louis-Armand de Lom d’Arce, Baron de Lahontan
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N.T. Wright on Our Participation in Renewal
When God rescues your heart from its natural rebellion, and makes it new through your trust in him, your baptism and your following of Jesus, the way this newness works must be through your own decisions, your own thinking things through, your own will power (aided and strengthened at every point, Christians would say, by…
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N.T. Wright on Forgiveness
Forgiveness is more like the air in our lungs. There’s only room for you to inhale the next lungful when you’ve just breathed out the previous one. If you insist on withholding it, refusing to give someone the kiss of life they may desperately need, you won’t be able to take in any more yourself…
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Esther Lightcap Meek on Forgiveness
While the words aren’t a magical formula – the “proper” words could be uttered with no forgiveness transpiring – I am convinced that it matters to utter them. To say “I apologize” or “I forgive you” is to carry out a speech act, not unlike saying “I do” or “I promise”. The words accomplish the…
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Jane Jacobs on Old Buildings
As for new ideas of any kind – no matter how ultimately profitable or otherwise successful some of them might prove to be – there is no leeway for such chancy trial, error, and experimentation in the high-overhead economy of new construction. Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.…
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Epiphany
When Jesus desires baptism, he does it as the sole good one, the one without sin, the one who does not need forgiveness, different from all human beings. As the good one, he desires baptism, even though he does not need it for himself, for the sake of those who need it, for the sake…