December 2011
1 post
“It’s like, if I had been born 10 years later, I could have saved thousands...”
– Andrew Burgess, on collecting records before the creation of Spotify.
November 2011
6 posts
Preservation
lambo91: What are your thoughts on cryogenic preservation and the idea of medically treating aging?
neiltyson: A marvelous way to just convince people to give you money. Offer to freeze them for later. I'd have more confidence if we had previously managed to pull this off with other mammals. Until then I see it as a waste of money. I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.
Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mateq/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/
Learning
bearsfan043: What is the simplest thing in your life that makes you happy?
neiltyson: Watching a person learn something new - not simply a new fact (those are cheap and easy) -- but achieve a new understanding for how the world works. That's the only reward a (true) educator ever seeks.
Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mateq/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/
Relativity
bluengreen7: What are your thoughts on the reports of neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light?
neiltyson: Three options:
1) Mistake in the data
VERY DISTANT 2) New particle traveling backwards through time. No need to modify relativity.
EVEN MORE DISTANT 3) Need to modify Relativity.
Roastmasters: Upvote for implying that time travel is more possible than the infactuality of relativity.
Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mateq/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/
“But we presumably are adults, with a special responsibility for interacting with...”
– Carl Sagan
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/03/if-membership-is-restricted-to-men-loss.html
“‘Nothing is more rare in any man,’ says Emerson, ‘than an act...”
– Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (the Emerson quote is from a lecture entitled “The Preacher”)
“And then I said, “Let there be party,” and there was party, and it...”
– Andrew WK
https://twitter.com/#!/AndrewWK/status/131398890208497664
October 2011
1 post
“But the arrival of digital projection will trigger the final capitulation of the...”
– Walter Murch
http://filmsound.org/theory/nyt5.htm
September 2011
2 posts
“Acceptance is a lot more important than happiness, I think,” he explains....”
– Jeff Tweedy
http://mplayer.pastemagazine.com/issues/week-13/articles#article=/issues/week-13/articles/wilco-the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-jeff-tweedy
“E qual è quei che volontieri acquista
e giugne ‘l tempo che perder lo...”
– ‘We all so willingly record our gains, / until the hour that leads us into loss. / Then every single thought is tears and sadness.’ —Dante, Inferno
August 2011
2 posts
“If you ever want to know what America really looks like—and I direct this...”
– Steve Almond, Candyfreak
“Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it.”
– Joshua Foer, “Moonwalking With Einstein”
June 2011
1 post
“The driver was impressed. “Come to think about it,” he said,...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Breakfast of Champions
April 2011
4 posts
“Ability to pay attention. It turns out that bliss—a second-by-second joy +...”
– David Foster Wallace
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/may/12/divine-drudgery/?page=2
“I’m just going to carry on like the old blues singers and die on stage in...”
– Morrissey
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13156314
“The Clash had massive record sales and reached a lot of people. After that broke...”
– Joe Strummer, “Redemption Song” by Chris Salewicz
“Dynamite can help you do other jobs, too. It can help you build highways, damns;...”
– E.I. du Pont de Nemoues & Co. Inc., Explosives Department print ad from a August 1935 issue of “American Forests”
March 2011
1 post
“All those fuckers want to make you a star, but you’re nothing more than a...”
– David Johansen (of New York Dolls) on the music industry and fans in “Redemption Song,” a book by Chris Salewicz
February 2011
1 post
“Washington has just as much an interest in encouraging student loan defaults as...”
– http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/02/the-student-loan-swindle/
November 2010
1 post
“Her favorite painting in that 2 lbs. art history book is now a $25 print in her...”
– http://htmlgiant.com/random/expired-domain-girl/
September 2010
1 post
“He listened with fascination to the Victrola and played the same record over and...”
– E.L. Doctorow, “Ragtime”
August 2010
1 post
“Well, I was rehearsing a play, and there was a scene that went on before me,...”
– Michael Caine, from Terry Gross’ book, “All I Did Was Ask”
July 2010
6 posts
“I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue...”
– — William Faulkner
http://www.theparisreview.org/media/4954_FAULKNER4.pdf
“In my opinion it’s a shame that there is so much work in the world. One of the...”
– — William Faulkner
http://www.theparisreview.org/media/4954_FAULKNER4.pdf
“In my opinion, if I could write all my work again, I am convinced that I would...”
– — William Faulkner
http://www.theparisreview.org/media/4954_FAULKNER4.pdf
“If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway,...”
– — William Faulkner
http://www.theparisreview.org/media/4954_FAULKNER4.pdf
“really?!?!? 20 years of repping this city?! TWENTY YEARS and not once in 1994 or...”
– —Questlove
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/2aogak
“I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the...”
– William Faulkner (“Peabody”), ”As I Lay Dying”
June 2010
5 posts
“I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying...”
– Frank Conroy, Stop-Time
“All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s...”
– Conan O’Brien (during his last show as host of The Tonight Show)
“The corporate model has collapsed, but small-label bands playing to 200 people a...”
– — Matt Berninger
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/magazine/25national-t.html?pagewanted=1
“I was a psychiatric nurse at the time. I just started writing stuff to kill time...”
– — John Darnielle
http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/6434-the-mountain-goats/
Brooding Condescension
Me: They cleared out everything of yours from the office as far as we could tell.
She: did they get the file cabinet?
Me: Yes — they took all the files out of the filing cabinet. The cabinet itself is FSU property.
She: obviously the cabinet is FSU property, justin.
May 2010
23 posts
1 tag
“We absolutely have to give our power away. The Internet is going to be exactly...”
– David Foster Wallace, “Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace” (by: David Lipsky, p. 88), a book of interviews conducted in March 1996.
“No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks,...”
– Alexander Hamilton
“Yeah, fuck it man, I can’t be worried about that shit. Life goes on man.”
– The Dude, “The Big Lebowski”
“In the end, arguing for or against religion, especially on the basis of whether...”
– David Kirby, from “Why Does It Always Have To Be A Boy Baby,” an essay included in “Ultra-Talk”
“Hug it out, bitch.”
– Michael Scott, “The Office”
“They’ve been complaining to me that I didn’t save the [umbilical]...”
– Dr. Camillo Ricordi, referring to complaints from his daughters. (He countered by telling them they could save their menstrual blood for possible stem cell use.)
“[The Ph.D. part of the graduation ceremony] was great. People were going from...”
– Matt Littlefield
“There is no remainder in the mathematics of infinity.”
– Bernard Jaffe, I <3 Huckabees
“I’m drunk.”
– Jedediah Leland, Citizen Kane
“I think Shaq is a pretty good role model.”
– Mom
“I enjoy misunderstanding other people’s lyrics and take pleasure in others...”
– Andrew Bird
“THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC”
– Kurt Vonnegut, “A Man Without A Country”
“Along with so many other Americans of my generation in an era of economic...”
– Joseph Heller, “Now And Then: From Coney Island To Here”
“Scientists who play by someone else’s rules don’t have much chance...”
– — Paleontologist Jack Horner, proponent of the Dinochicken
http://www.wired.com/medtech/genetics/magazine/17-03/st_qa
“The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet...”
– Lorenzo, “The Merchant of Venice,” Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 81-86
“The government of women has a mysterious way of proceeding; we must leave it to...”
– Montaigne, “On some verses of Virgil”
“Somewhere along the way, we got so focused on enforcing the law that we lost...”
– — Megan McArdle
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/05/this-is-your-war-on-drugs/56380/