“A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine”
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Alan Turing
April 2010
“The source of the new is the random”
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Gregory Bateson
“It is a cavernous earth of labyrinthine intricacy, twenty-seven folds of opaqueness, and finishes where the lark mounts”
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William Blake
“Poets and artists live on frontiers. They have no feedback, only feedforward. They have no identities. They are probes.”
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Marshall McLuhan
“What he feared most was the blind spot between us and the future, the space between identities where we could get lost forever”
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Wilfred Sheed
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe”
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Carl Sagan
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes”
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Marcel Duchamp
“Separated from the familiar, confronted with the unfamiliar, and reflexed only by the brain’s mechanical feedback”
—buckminster fuller
“People are so alienated from their own soul that when they meet their soul they think it comes from another star system”
—terence mckenna
“The starships of the future exploring the high frontier of the unknown will be syntactical — the engineers of the future will be poets. This is what virtual reality holds out to us — the possibility of walking in to the constructs of the imagination”
—terence mckenna
“There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum”
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Arthur C. Clarke
“My mycelial network is nearly immortal, only the sudden toxification of a planet or the explosion of its parent star can wipe me out”
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Terence McKenna
“It’s almost as though communication becomes high-speed sculpture in a conceptual dimension made of light and intentionality”
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Terence McKenna
“My witness is the empty sky”
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Jack Kerouac
“Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center”
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Kurt Vonnegut
“I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.”
—William S. Burroughs
