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The paradoxical challenge today is that companies are never sure they're asking the right questions, confronting the real problems... The Net is not as much a way to nail down definitive answers as it is a place to ask deeper questions -- not a solution, but a larger conundrum.
-- Chris Locke
“Conversation enriches the understanding but solitude is the school of genius.”
— Edward Gibbon on the relationship between solitude and genius:
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Wisdom #Quotes #OprahWinfrey #DuctTape #TheForce
#Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah
“People are treated like pinballs with constant military orders playing with their fate and lives.”
“Where are people supposed to move? Unlike in other conflicts, where populations can find safety, Gaza is being bombarded all across. It is sealed off like a cage with borders shut and basics not allowed in.”
“Two million people, half of them children, live there. How is this allowed, at the world’s watch, with no checks and balances.”
Lazzarini
“Having many cats is good. If you feel bad, you look at the cats and you feel better, because they know that everything is just the way it is. You don't have to be nervous about anything. And they know it. They are saviors. The more cats you have, the longer you will live. If you have a hundred cats, you will live ten times longer than if you have ten. One day, this will be known and people will have thousands of cats." — Charles Bukowski #quotes #cats
<<La primera medida de todo poder autoritario es hacerle la vida imposible a los porqués.>>
Manuel Rivas.
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes before you die. That is true, it's called Life.
“I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?”
― Graham Greene
“Anyway, if you stop tellin’ people it’s all sorted out afer they’re dead, they might try sorting it all out while they’re alive. ”
(Good Omens)
With the most recent online trend of having AI generated images sort of resembling the art style of Studio Ghibli, nothing sums things up more than this quote by Hayao Miyazaki on similar technology from several years ago:
"I can't watch this stuff and find [it] interesting. Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever. I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all."
Which also brings to mind this quote by Guillermo del Toro, said during a conversation with the British Film Institute, where he also, interestingly enough, references Miyazaki and his work later on:
“I saw a demo of AI and I thought oh that's what people think animation is, giving prompts and the computer does it. You know, but AI has demonstrated that it can do semi-compelling screensavers. That's essentially that. The value of art is not how much it costs and how little effort it requires, it’s how much would you risk to be in its presence. How much would people pay for those screensavers? Are they going to make them cry because they lost a son? A mother? Because they misspent their youth? Fuck no!”
More personal rambling on why only human art is art here:
https://www.fringemagnet.net/2025/03/artificially-generated-colourful-empty.html
Full Guillermo del Toro video here: 
https://youtu.be/TlC9sxUu2l0?si=a2LTgwngUfSn1vvR&t=1606
www.fringemagnet.netArtificially Generated Colourful Empty Husk
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When we want to incentivize rich people, we give them money. When we want to incentivize poor people, we take it away.
-- Anonymous
#Wisdom #Quotes #Anonymous #Incentives #Poverty #Wealth
#Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida
"Though we cannot change the direction of the wind, we must adjust our sails." -Mozzie, White Collar.
“It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.”
(Making Money)
Seen in Toronto.
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You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
-- James Baldwin
"The only thing that saves us from the #bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty."
-- Eugene McCarthy #quotes