Matthew Gallant > Matthew's Quotes

“Computers had their origin in military cryptography—in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression.”
― Austin Grossman, You

“Finesse and refinement are admirable qualities, but they are not the artist’s ultimate goals; and, indeed, they can stand in the way of those goals.”
― Sam Inglis, Harvest

“You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences: from books, from people, from journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store. But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

“While it is true that these arts employ what are, to us, highly difficult technical disciplines, it is always recognized that they are instrumental and secondary, and that superior work has the quality of an accident.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

“I don't mind worriers," I said. "Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“History, largely experienced previously as a series of natural disasters, could now be seen as a movement in which everyone could potentially enlist.”
― Pankaj Mishra, Age of Anger: A History of the Present

“It is at this point in the book that the author famously laments that despite our ability to bring food from the earth, we are incapable of creating a system in which the hungry can be fed.”
― Yanis Varoufakis, Μιλώντας στην κόρη μου για την οικονομία

“Nous avons créé (surtout nos ancêstres) des systèmes gigantesques et monstreux qui sont devenus indispensables au maintain des conditions de vie de milliards de personnes.”
― Pablo Servigne, Comment tout peut s'effondrer : Petit manuel de collapsologie à l'usage des générations présentes