quot. & cf.

May
14th

Wed

Just about the only thing that humans aren’t strong enough to break, that is also thin and flexible enough, is parachute nylon—but that’s porous

— Nicholas White, head of quality control at SSL International in Cambridge, UK, which owns major condom brand Durex via Nature

May
10th

Sat

Emmanuel Sougez
Tücherstapel, 1935
Silbergelatine print
38,1 × 26,5 cm
Galerie m Bochum via Mrs Deane

May
7th

Wed

Saturday Night! (via brian cors)

May
6th

Tue

Daniel Meyer, le sac plastique (via socioimpression)

May
2nd

Fri

There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.

— Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control”

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

— Voltaire

Apr
29th

Tue

Anne Hardy
Drift, 2004 
Diasec mounted c-type print 
120 × 180 cm
Edition of five
via The Morning News

Apr
28th

Mon

Some work colleagues and I were chatting at lunch today and somehow managed to find ourselves posing the question, “what’s the scariest question you could ask your spouse?”

After a few rounds we came up with, “Sweetheart, can [you] tell me something about myself that I think you don’t know?”

— stewartj, The Joyent Community / Scariest Question

Apr
22nd

Tue

A stringent academic system would require sabbaticals to be spent earning one’s livelihood in a pursuit unrelated to one’s speciality.

— George Steiner, Lessons from the Masters

Apr
21st

Mon

Matthias Stief, GDR guesthouse

[Deconstruction] could have been something else, and no doubt in the not-too-distant future it will be.

— Stanley Fish - Think Again

by Zhang Peng via Zoum Zoum: La petite fille triste

Robb Kendrick, Stephanie Hagenbarth

Apr
20th

Sun

The psychological principle is this: anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

— Robert Benchley, How to get things done (c 1949), via ☂