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What I had written wasn't true, it wasn't written in pursuit of truth, it wasn't science.
It was journalism, magazine journalism, whose ultimate standard was readability.
Out of Enduring love, by Ian Mc Ewan
Posted on October 2, 2004
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Shindler's List
Who saves one person, saves the world.
Posted on November 11, 2004
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A person’s life, after all, in its simplest terms is nothing more than moments strung together from the second of birth to that final instant when the last breath is drawn. If those moments, all so fleeting, should be preserved, they become memories to be cherished; the more memories, the more important the life.
Out of 'One Hour Photo'
Posted on January 2, 2005
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Only when you really really eager to fly, you'll find a pair of wings.
Moko.
Posted on January 7, 2005
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Stuff for an interesting discussion...
Posted on January 20, 2005
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If not now...
If I am not for myself, who shall be for me?
If I am only for myself, what am l?
If not now, when?
Rabbi Hillel, 2000 years ago.
Posted on January 20, 2005
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The tiger
TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee?
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
William Blake. 1757–1827
(Guess I really need to run to the nearest Apple shop soon... lol)
Posted on May 1, 2005
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"When I grow up, I too will go to faraway places, and when I grow old, I too will live beside the sea."
"That is all very well, little Alice," said her grandfather, "but there is a third thing you must do."
"What is that?" asked Alice.
"You must do something to make the world more beautiful," said her grandfather.
"All right," said Alice. But she did not know what that could be.
from Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney, 1982
Posted on May 21, 2005
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Shooting and bleeding
Way back when the Sam Peckinpah film 'The Wild Bunch' premiered, a woman journalist raised her hand at the press conference and asked the following: 'Why in the world do you have to show so much blood all over the place?' She was pretty worked up about it. One of the actors, Ernest Borgnine, looked a bit perplexed and fielded the question. 'Lady, did you ever see anyone shot with a gun without bleeding?'
I love that line. That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way. And bleeding. Shooting and bleeding.
Out of Sputnik Sweetheart, of Haruki Murakami
Posted on May 27, 2005
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"What we see is possibly different from what it is."
<Ludwig Wittgenstein>
Posted on September 5, 2005
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[Photography] is not
[Photography] is not good at documenting as process,
it cannot explain, analyse, nor make a prognosis.
In fact it is very limited.
But one action it can perform brilliantly: it can influence human emotions.
Witold Krassowski
Posted on September 12, 2005
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Eternal sunshine
How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.
Out of Alexander Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard"
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Posted on February 18, 2006
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Quote of the week
"Newspapers will still exist in 35 years. But the classical advertisement office is dead within 2 years."
Vandebotermet in Knack, Feb 15 p90
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Posted on February 19, 2006
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The news media are in crisis. Rocked by scandals, attacked from both the left and the right, challenged by upstart bloggers and accused of complicity with a war built largely on lies and shoddy information gathering, the credibility of journalism as a whole lies in tatters. In a recent US poll, 65 percent of the respondents did not trust news outlets to quickly report on or correct their own errors, while 79 percent thought the media would hesitate to run unflattering stories about advertisers. The silver lining? During such a time of anxiety, upheaval and war, a level of skepticism this high can serve to fuel the decommercialization our infosystems, to break up media monopolies and to force us all to scrutinize the true state of the mental commons.
Source: Annenberg Public Policy Center Poll, May 2005
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Posted on February 21, 2006
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"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do."
"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do."
Wow, what a relief when reading this.
Knowing what to do is my main problem, but I surely know what I DON'T want to do ;)
(quote by Michael Porter)
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Posted on February 24, 2006
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Quote of the week
If newspapers want to keep on existing in the changing media environment, they should not act as protagonists, but should release their content.
Tom Glocer, CEO van Reuters.
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Posted on March 3, 2006
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Quoted: Kerry Tribe
"Are you being yourself or playing yourself?"
"Both."
Out of a Here and Elsewhere of Kerry Tribe
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Posted on April 23, 2006
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Nature herself has determined the sphere of activity in which the animal should move, and it peacefully moves within that sphere, without attempting to go beyond it, without even an inkling of any other. To man, too, the Deity gave a general aim, that of ennobling mankind and himself, but he left it to man to seek the means by which this aim can be achieved; he left it to him to choose the position in society most suited to him, from which he can best uplift himself and society.
Karl Marx, Reflections of A Young Man On Choosing An Occupation (August 1835)
Posted on April 30, 2006
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Spambox
Imagination is higher than wisdom.
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Posted on May 8, 2006
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In life
In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up and put in the time and work it takes to get it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It is because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps.
Neil Strauss, The Game
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Posted on May 9, 2006
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Sputnik Sweetheart
Way back when the Sam Peckinpah film 'The Wild Bunch' premiered, a woman journalist raised her hand at the press conference and asked the following: 'Why in the world do you have to show so much blood all over the place?' She was pretty worked up about it. One of the actors, Ernest Borgnine, looked a bit perplexed and fielded the question. 'Lady, did you ever see anyone shot with a gun without bleeding?'
I love that line. That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way. And bleeding. Shooting and bleeding.
Out of Sputnik Sweetheart
by Murakami Haruki
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Posted on May 27, 2006
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Happy endings are stories that haven't finished yet.
Angelina Jolie in Mr & Mrs Smith
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Posted on June 23, 2006
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If not us who?
If not now when?
Geena Davis in 'Commander in Chief'
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Posted on June 30, 2006
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Logical
“Logic is a very elegant tool,” he [Gregory Bateson] said, “And we’ve got a lot of
mileage out of it for two thousand years or so. The trouble is, you know, when
you apply it to crabs and porpoises, and butterflies and habit formation” — his
voice trailed off, and he added after a pause, looking out over the ocean — “you
know, to all those pretty things” — and now, looking straight at me — “logic
won’t quite do...because that whole fabric of living things is not put together by
logic. You see when you get circular trains of causation, as you always do in the
living world, the use of logic will make you walk into paradoxes.”
From Uncommon Wisdom: Conversations with Remarkable People by Fritjof Capra
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Posted on August 29, 2006
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
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Posted on October 31, 2006
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"And she liked me. She liked me. She liked me. She liked me. Or at least, I think she did."
Nick Hornby
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Posted on November 30, 2006
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Quote of the week
"Everything in the universe attracts everything else with a constant and unfailing force"
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Posted on January 26, 2007
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Once upon a time I wanted love.
You have to see it is wrapped in beauty and hiding between the seconds of your life.
If you don't stop for a minute, you might miss it.
Cashback
Posted on February 2, 2007
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"If your pictures aren't good enough then you aren't close enough"
Robert Capa, photographer
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Posted on February 13, 2007
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"We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?"
Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD)
(shameless copied from Marketing.eu)
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Posted on February 20, 2007
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
[out of Moby Dick]
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Posted on February 27, 2007
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Instead of watching hourly updates, why not read a daily paper? Instead of reading the back and forth of a daily, why not read a weekly review? Instead of a weekly review, why not read a monthly magazine? Instead of a monthly magazine, why not read an annual book?
Swartz
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Posted on May 9, 2007
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What information consumes is rather obvious:
it consumes the attention of its recipients.
Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention
and a need to allocate that attention efficiently
among the overabundance of information sources
that might consume it.
Herbert Simon, Recipient of nobel Memorial Prize in economics1
and the A.M. turing Award, the “nobel Prize of Computer Science”
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Posted on May 12, 2007
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