Quotes

A carefully curated collection of quotes can serve as a wellspring of motivation and creativity. Whether they originate from historical figures who have left indelible marks on the world or non-historical individuals whose words resonate with universal truths, these quotations provide invaluable insights that can spark new ideas and perspectives. A repository of quotations is more than a collection; it’s a dynamic tool for personal and professional growth. By drawing from the wisdom of both historical and non-historical individuals, we enrich our own perspectives and continually find new sources of inspiration and motivation.

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Quotation	Author	Source
…art does not reproduce the visible, rather it makes visible	Paul Klee	Medium Article
“Generative Design is thinking about designing not the object — but a process to generate objects.”	Michael Hansmeyer
“Our thoughts, feelings, desires and actions are being robotized; ‘life’ is coming to mean feeding apparatuses and being fed by them. In short: Everything is becoming absurd. So where is there room for human freedom?”	Vilém Flusser	Towards a Philosophy of Photography
The fate of facts and machines is in later users’ hands.	Bruno Latour
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.	Alan Turing
A picture cannot… depict its pictorial form: it displays it	Wittgenstein
Acousmatic is cinema for ears.	Daniel Teruggi	Youtube
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.	Martin Fowler
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible	Paul Klee	Create Confession, 1920
Art programmed using a computer that intentionally introduces randomness as part of its creation process	Jason Bailey
But there is a world of difference between what computers can do and what society will choose to do with them.	Seymour Papert
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.	Alan Turing
Communication is an artificial, intentional, dialogic, collective act of freedom, aiming at creating codes that help us forget our inevitable death and the fundamental senselessness of our absorb existence.	Vilém Flusser
Controlling Complexity is the essence of computer programming	Brian Kernighan
Dünyaları yaratana kendimi teslim etmek zorundayım. Sizleri toz zerreciklerinden var eden odur.	Kuran	Mümin Suresi
Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves…	Charles Eisenstein
Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person’s capacity to act.	Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Every moment of our life presents two aspects, it is actual and virtual, perception on the one side and memory on the other.	Henry Bergson
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.	Oscar Wilde
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.	John Johnson
Generative art is the ceding of control by the artist to an autonomous system. With the inclusion of such systems as symmetry, pattern, and tiling one can view generative art as being old as art itself. This view of generative art also includes 20th century chance procedures as used by Cage, Burroughs, Ellsworth, Duchamp, and others.”	Cecilia Di Chio
Gimme two records and I’ll make you a universe…	DJ Spooky, Paul D. Miller
Great acts are made up of small deeds	Lao Tzu
Heretofore most interaction between men and computers has been slowed down by the need to reduce all communication to written statements that can be typed; in the past, we have been writing letters to rather than conferring with our computers.	Ivan E. Sutherland	Sketchpad, 1963
Hiçbir insanın ömrü başka bir insanın egosunu taşıyacak kadar uzun değildir.	Paulo Coelho
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.	Isaac Asimov
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.	Alan Turing
If a positivist sees a black sheep in the meadow, she will not say “There is a black sheep in the meadow.” → “I see a sheep in the meadow one side of which is black”	Anatol Rapoport
If opportunity doesn’t knock build a door.	Milton Berle
In the entire history of the human species, every tool we’ve invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets use use our brain power.	David Gerrold
It is no more essential to the under- standing of a proposition that one should imagine anything in connexion with it, than that one should make a sketch from it.	Wittgenstein
Java is to Javascript what car is to Carpet.	Chris Heilmann
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.	Thomas Edison
MACHINE LEARNING: “The field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed.” (1959)	Arthur Samuel
Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My apps are as useful as a song.	Scott Snibbe
My art is a nightmare for mathematicians because I don’t prove anything.	Manfred Mohr
Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn’t give you credit	Tony Robbins
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.	Napoleon Hill
Now for the thinking soul images take the place of direct perceptions; and when it asserts or denies that they are good or bad, it avoids or pursues them. Hence the soul never thinks without a mental image., De-Anima	Aristotle
Now objects perceive me	Paul Klee
Okumak hayallerimi şekillendirdi; daha fazla okumaksa o hayallerimi gerçekleştirmeme yardım etti	Ruth Bader Ginsburg
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.	Alan Kay
People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.	Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Perhaps our minds can learn to use computers with the natural freedom our hands use pencils.	Osamu Sato
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.	Alan Turing
Reality always partly eludes our grasp; it is not directly seem, but always interpreted in a specific way and from a specific standpoint.	Graham Harman
Reality is so real that any attempts to translate it into literal terms is doomed to failure.	Graham Harman
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep	Albert Camu
Systems can be complex in two senses; They can be structurally complex, for instance, there can be systems where elements maintain a very complex relation with each other. But they can be also functionally complex, which means that if you use the system, you can use it in a complex way. Now those two complexities are independent one on the other. A structurally complex system may be functionally simple, like a television box which has a structure of almost impenetrable complexity, but the use of which extremely simple. On the other hand, simple systems like Chess game, can have very complex functional manipulations. It is a fact that functionally complex systems are a challenge to create thought whereas functionally simple systems are stultifying, idiotic. Now the complex systems which now are coming about are complex in a structural sense, whether they will be functionally complex or not, depends on us. For the time being, those complex systems are being used for functionally simple u	Vilém Flusser
Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.	Alan Kay
The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.	Bill Gates
The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.	Sol LeWitt
The main challenge is trying to create work that touches people at an emotional level, as opposed to them thinking about the technology or wondering about how it was made. Making poems, not demos, is how we refer to it, i.e. making work that is like a poem, short yet dense, re-tellable, rhythmic, meaningful as opposed to a demo that feels like technology for technology’s sake.	Zach Lieberman
The non-place is the opposite of utopia: it exists, and it does not contain any organic society.	Marc Augé	From Places to Non-places
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.	Karl Marx
The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.	Dan Millman
The secret of getting a head is getting started	Mark Twain
The technology you use impresses no one. The experience you create with it is everything.	Sean Gerety
The wheel…is an extension of the foot. The book… is an extension of the eye… Clothing, an extension of the skin… Electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system.	Marshall McLuhan	Reference
There is not a world of images and a world of objects. Every object whether it is present as an external perception or appears to intimate sense, can function as a present day reality or as an image, depending on what centre of reference has been chosen. The two worlds, real and imaginary, are composed of the same objects; only the grouping and the interpretation of these objects varies.	Jean Paul Sartre
There is this old romantic idea which is called “intuition”. An artist has talent, a genius, sits down, has a drink… And creates. And intuition does what it does. Sometimes it creates something good, sometimes not. Now, when we work with computers, we’re modern and say intuition is old fashioned. I’m not interested. But, there is a thing that can replace intuition. It’s randomness.	Vera Molnar
There will never be a universal program that truly understands a sentence, because sentence comprehension clearly has a subjective element to it. Any sentence comprehension program will exhibit the biases of its programmer within its interpretations.”	Jim Campbell	Delusions of Dialogue: Control and Choice in Interactive Art
This is content production in the age of algorithmic discovery — even if you’re a human, you have to end up impersonating the machine.	James Bridle
Thoughts are the images of things, as words are of thoughts; and we all know that images and pictures are only so far true as they are true representations of men and things. … For poets as well as painters think it their business to take the likeness of things from their appearance. Joseph Trapp, Lectures on Poetry (1711)	Joseph Trapp
virtuality: “real without being actual, ideal without being abstract”	Marcel Proust
We inhabit a technical world. A world which we made, the changes of which lies in our hands and perfection of which depends essentially on our reasoning and our imagination.	Max Bense	Reference
What happens when a user gets stuck in a series of automated systems with no way out? What happens when a chatbot gets stuck in a place, or some data is wrong and there’s no person around to let the users reenter in the information or override it? Machines make mistakes, period. So, this prompts the question: How well are these systems designed to handle mistakes?	Caroline Sinders
What is characteristic of myth? To transform a meaning into form. In other words, myth is always a language-robbery.	Roland Barthes
What’s a machine?—Till further notice, it is any system that operates according to the causal laws of physics. And what are we?	Steven Harnad
When I first placed objects between piano strings, it was with the desire to possess sounds (to be able to repeat then). But, as the music left my home and went from piano to piano and from pianist to pianist, it became clear that not only are two pianists essentially different from one another, but two pianos are not the same either. Instead of the possibility of repetition, we are faced in life with the unique qualities and characteristics of each occasion.	john Cage
When we speak or write, we never create anything from scratch: rather, we reiterate what was already there, we literally re-present.	Dani Cavallaro
Why focus on projects? We take seriously the analogy between coding and writing. When you learn to write, it’s not enough to learn spelling, grammar, and punctuation. It’s important to learn to tell stories and communicate your ideas. The same is true for coding.	Mitchel Resnick
Without freedom there can be no morality. There is no morality, no moral decision, without freedom. There is only morality when you can choose, and you cannot choose if you are forced.	Carl Jung	C.G. Jung, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, Vol. 1
Working under the aegis of 4S, we divided the intellectual terrain of STS into four parts: theory and methods, reciprocal relations with other fields, engagement with the public sphere, and enduring themes and new directions.	STS
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.	Buckminster Fuller
You never know what you can do until you try	William Cobbett
You should worry about where the data comes from to train these algorithms. You should be upset when some of that data is taken without consent, as demonstrated in a recent Verge article on trans people’s images of transitioning being used without their consent in a research project on AI and facial recognition. You shouldn’t just worry, you should be outraged at how ethically bankrupt that is.	Caroline Sinders