We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
Kevin Kelly.
“Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash...”
“Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants:Increasing efficiencyIncreasing opportunityIncreasing emergenceIncreasing complexityIncreasing diversityIncreasing specializationIncreasing ubiquityIn...”
“Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.”
“...the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.”
“What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror?...The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response o...”
“The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could s...”
“Ritsu... Do you like Oda?" More than me?"Yes.”
“Big skirmishes over small misunderstanding make things bad in a relationship.”
“To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.”
“Sometimes when I'm writing, I wonder if the words have a mind of their own, and if they're really just using me as a puppet to manifest themselves.”
“If we occupy our minds with self-loathing or negative thoughts, then maybe we dont have enough to do.”
“The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.”