“We’re trying to get the pandemic under control. We're trying to put people back to work. I don't find that boring. I work in the government. If you find that boring, maybe you should work for US Magazine and cover scandals in Hollywood.” ― White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Peter Hamby’s Snapchat show
The Boring News Cycle Deals Blow to Partisan Media https://www.axios.com/partisan-media-biden-trump-26f54a8b-d4e2-4319-a185-bd5f55ac661f.html
"What if we are wrong about climate change, and we create a better world for nothing?" - Anonymous
"The last thing I want to do is develop media to get in the way of person-to person interchange because I think all communication should end with either a handshake or a kiss." - George C. Stoney
Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are corporations. - Amnesty International https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/corporate-accountability/
Illustration by John Holcraft
"Netflix's programming is based on algorithms, and the results are mixed. Even though HBO spends way less money, they continue to have better programming on average because they stick with their programming philosophy, which is fundamentally trust the artist!" ― John Koblin, On the Media podcast, 12/9/2022
"Oh Shut Up, You Silly Man [sic]!" - Oscar Brown
Illustration by Waldemar Kazak.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/the-snake-how-trump-appr…/….
“Perhaps the universe is constructed according to a principle of maximum diversity. The principle of maximum diversity says that the laws of nature, and the initial conditions at the beginning of time, are such as to make the universe as interesting as possible.” - Theoretical Physicist and Mathematician, Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/science/freeman-dyson-institute-for-advanced-study.html
“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal as time will show.” - Ada Lovelace
Illustration by Moebius
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” - Dr. Suess
Photo by Juan Carlos Paz
Words and images of others I find idiocyncratic, intriguing and inspirational.
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