Posts from the ‘Quotes’ Category

Sep 16

“Social media is the new tribal fire, but human biology hasn’t changed in 50,000 years, unlike human technology.” ―Billi Gordon Ph.D., in Psychology Today

Neurochemically, the squirts of slavering juice triggered by approbations in social media, act like dinner bells in the part of our nervous system that works like Pavlov’s pup’s, and are as addictive as juicy bones scattered round the tribal fire.

“The Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA) of the brain monitors social needs by releasing dopamine when we achieve social success and inspiring neurochemical deficits when we don’t. Tragically, social media is not the VTA’s friend.”

―Billi Gordon Ph.D.

Sep 14

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“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche

After the stork dropped us off, it took a walk. We followed in its footsteps.

“But the beauty is in the walking — we are betrayed by destinations.”

―Gwyn Thomas

Sep 8

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” —Herodotus, translated by Professor George Herbert Palmer

Since Colonial days in America, ages before the Pony Express saddled up or the Spirit of St. Louis took off, Postal Service workers have been heroes of the people.

“The Postal Inspection Service is the oldest law enforcement agency in the country, created in 1772—before the Declaration of Independence. Its mission is to protect and defend the nation’s mail system, and that includes elections.”

―Politico.com, Labor Day 2020

Sep 2

“There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers’ battle with the heavens that cover them.” —Federico Garcia Lorca

A town of skyscrapers is to the sky what a bed of nails is to a gown of veils.

“Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they’re just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.”

―David Adjaye

Aug 27

“Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.” —Ludwig Wittgenstein

You can feel inaudible music in the spaces between the holes punched in piano rolls.

“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between the notes.”

―Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Aug 23

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.” —Aristotle

Attention new inmates! The J. Edgar Hoover Costume Party is tonight. Drop your dirty linen in the Rackets Club Laundry, and come as you are.

“If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.”

―King Solomon

Aug 19

“Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.” ―Isaiah Berlin

Dear Uncle Sam,

I have decided to pass up your offer to be President when I grow up. I want to be a philosopher and ponder the meaning of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Maybe you could help.

“The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.”

―Isaiah Berlin

Aug 13

“Well, when you’re relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There’s no such thing as time when you’re really relaxed. That’s why meditation works.” ―Shirley MacLaine

Since the first post appeared on this site, 2570 days ago, every day is today. Each morning we wake up aware of time as it was before the greatest illusion of all was invented.

“They took away time, and they gave us the clock.”

―Abdullah Ibrahim

Aug 10

“The concept of surveillance is ingrained in our beings. God was the original surveillance camera.” ―Hasan M. Elahi

Beside ourselves, folks feeling prying eyes, even behind their firewalls, are not touched in the head.

“What would the infrastructure of the Internet look like if mass surveillance wasn’t its business model?”

―Trevor Paglen

Aug 8

“Let’s go and get drunk on light again – it has the power to console.” ―Georges Seurat

One sun-dappled Sunday in Post-Impressionist Paris, the first Neo-Impressionist artist―working under a parasol made of points of light, among several shading an idle parade of blasé bourgeoisie, passing a Sabbath of pleasureless leisure on an island in a Seine made of points of light―invents Pointillism.

Posts from the ‘Quotes’ Category

Neurochemically, the squirts of slavering juice triggered by approbations in social media, act like dinner bells in the part of our nervous system that works like Pavlov’s pup’s, and are as addictive as juicy bones scattered round the tribal fire.

“The Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA) of the brain monitors social needs by releasing dopamine when we achieve social success and inspiring neurochemical deficits when we don’t. Tragically, social media is not the VTA’s friend.”

―Billi Gordon Ph.D.

After the stork dropped us off, it took a walk. We followed in its footsteps.

“But the beauty is in the walking — we are betrayed by destinations.”

―Gwyn Thomas

Since Colonial days in America, ages before the Pony Express saddled up or the Spirit of St. Louis took off, Postal Service workers have been heroes of the people.

“The Postal Inspection Service is the oldest law enforcement agency in the country, created in 1772—before the Declaration of Independence. Its mission is to protect and defend the nation’s mail system, and that includes elections.”

―Politico.com, Labor Day 2020

A town of skyscrapers is to the sky what a bed of nails is to a gown of veils.

“Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they’re just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.”

―David Adjaye

You can feel inaudible music in the spaces between the holes punched in piano rolls.

“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between the notes.”

―Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Attention new inmates! The J. Edgar Hoover Costume Party is tonight. Drop your dirty linen in the Rackets Club Laundry, and come as you are.

“If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.”

―King Solomon

Dear Uncle Sam,

I have decided to pass up your offer to be President when I grow up. I want to be a philosopher and ponder the meaning of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Maybe you could help.

“The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.”

―Isaiah Berlin

Since the first post appeared on this site, 2570 days ago, every day is today. Each morning we wake up aware of time as it was before the greatest illusion of all was invented.

“They took away time, and they gave us the clock.”

―Abdullah Ibrahim

Beside ourselves, folks feeling prying eyes, even behind their firewalls, are not touched in the head.

“What would the infrastructure of the Internet look like if mass surveillance wasn’t its business model?”

―Trevor Paglen

“Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.”

―George Seurat