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“Happily, solving problems by intensifying production and increasing complexity does not always yield catastrophic results.”
― Joseph A. Tainter

“What must a text be if it can, by itself in a way, turn itself in order to shine again, after an eclipse, with a different light, in a time that is no longer that of its productive source (and was it ever contemporaneous with it?), and then again repeat this resurgence after several deaths, counting, among several others, those of the author, and the simulacrum of a multiple extinction?”
― Jacques Derrida, Margins of Philosophy

“Objects are relatively stupid. They do a few things well, as do lobsters.”
― Leland Wilkinson, The Grammar of Graphics

“Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from Segnovia, where he was staying, and came to Alcala, that he, too, might be cast into prison.”
― St. Ignatius of Loyola