I met up with Sune, the Danish traveler I had met days before in the smoking lounge. I was reading the next book that will be quoted on Void, Everything Bad Is Good For You – How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter and he struck up a conversation. I was a bit resistant to people at this point, being it was the end of my trip and I was cooling down from socializing, I attempted to shy away from it. After many hours of talking about our interests we came to realize how much we need to show each other. For the next few days we spent most of our time exploring downtown and watching endless movies in the library. Needless to say I look forward to seeing him again in San Diego. I’m flying down and he will be driving. This should be interesting!
“But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?”
– Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“Ultimately, dramatic achievements have always taken us past our fears and overcome denialism–because progress offers hope and for humans nothing beats hope”
– Michael Specter, Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
“I wondered how much of this was science fiction, and how much was genuinely likely to happen.”
– Michael Specter, Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
“He wore a furry silk hat, and the frequent substitution of twine and shoelaces for buttons, apparent at critical points of his costume, marked a man essentially bachelor.”
– H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
“There is no more to be said about disorder than it says itself.”
– Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion