The Analog Sea Review Quotes

“You use up everything you've got trying to give everybody what they want.”
― Nina Simone, The Analog Sea Review: Number Two

“Life is tragic, and therefore unutterably beautiful.”
― James Baldwin, The Analog Sea Review: Number Two

“When a tradition has been evolved, whatever the tradition is, the people, in general, will suppose it to have existed from before the beginning of time and will be most unwilling and indeed unable to conceive of any changes in it. They do not know how they will live without those traditions that have given them their identity. Their reaction, when it is suggested that they can or that they must, is panic. And we see this panic, I think, everywhere in the world today.”
― James Baldwin, The Analog Sea Review: Number Two

“The suffering at such times [of bereavement] can be great, I know. But it is somehow comforting to learn, even through suffering, how large and powerful love is.”
― Fenton Johnson, The Analog Sea Review: Number Two

“Consumption can never satisfy because the logic of the consumable object demands the creation of new insatiable needs.”
― Kevin Fox Gotham, The Analog Sea Review: Number Two

“If we want to compare a computer algorithm with nature, we must consider that a lot of the algorithms that are dictating international issues, politics, capitalism, culture and ultimately the content of human attention, were basically programmed by young men fresh out of Stanford, Harvard and MIT. So the experience behind these algorithms is basically puberty and then some, whereas the experience behind nature goes all the way back to the big bang.”
― Jonathan Simons, The Analog Sea Review: Number Two

“If you look at human thinking in terms of determinism, then you could say that the human mind is an algorithm, no different than a computer. But in my personal thinking, there are two profound differences: a computer algorithm is not curious, and a computer algorithm doesn't feel.”
― Jonathan Simons, The Analog Sea Review: Number Two