Those wandering artists dressed in rags, sent by the Muses, those wise bohemians who explained the way of the world in song—half encyclopedists, half jesters—are the ancestors of writers. Their poetry came before prose, and their music before silent reading.
- Papyrus by Irene vallejo
In the words of Umberto Eco, the book belongs to the same category as the spoon, the hammer, the wheel, or a pair of scissors. Once invented, these things cannot be surpassed
-Papyrus - The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
The common defect of all mystical systems previous to that of the Aeon whose Law is Thelema is that there has been no place for Laughter. – Aleister Crowley
“The future is not a career.” De Tonnac agreed: “We cannot predict the future. These days the present is constantly shedding its skin.”
Book : The Gutenberg paranthesis
It is the mark of a genius like Blake, or Dostoevsky, or Lawrence, that what is purest and most consistent in his thought burns away his own suffering and fanaticism, while his art speaks to what is most deeply human in us.
- Alfred kazin
Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center. Instead of putting the taxi driver out of a job, blockchain puts Uber out of a job and lets the taxi drivers work with the customer directly. —Vitalik Buterin
A common tactic social networks use to get content creators to promote more content is to let creators achieve a certain scale of audience, and then to adjust the algorithm so the creators no longer receive the same levels of attention organically.
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