Nathan

“Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants:
Increasing efficiency
Increasing opportunity
Increasing emergence
Increasing complexity
Increasing diversity
Increasing specialization
Increasing ubiquity
Increasing freedom
Increasing mutualism
Increasing beauty
Increasing sentience
Increasing structure
Increasing evolvability”
― Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants

“The linking of rationality with mysticism, knowability with what is unknown, makes it a powerful fetish that offers its programmers and users alike a sense of empowerment, of sovereign subjectivity, that covers over-barely-a sense of profound ignorance.”
― Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory

“Get rid of half the words on each page, then get rid of half of what’s left.”
― Steve Krug, Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

“Dare to be naïve.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller