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Chris Lavergne

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4,096 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“WordPress is in a market as competitive as it has ever been, especially on the proprietary and closed side. I believe WordPress will win, first and foremost, because of its community — the hundreds of core developers and large commercial companies, the tens of thousands of plugin and theme developers, and the millions of people who build beautiful things with WordPress every day. Automattic is here to support that community and invest the full strength of our resources to making WordPress a better product every day, bringing us closer to our shared mission of democratizing publishing. But a majority of the web isn’t on an open platform yet, and we have a lot of work ahead of us. Back to it!”
— Matt Mullenweg, New Funding for Automattic
Tagged: WordPress, Open Web
“I know what real radicals look like — and they did not go on to graduate school.”
— Camille Paglia, Crisis In The American Universities
Tagged: Extremism, Radicals, Higher Education
“When the image is new, the world is new.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tagged: New Drug, Photography, Seeing Seeing, Make It New, Aesthetics
“Forces are manifested in poems that do not pass through the circuits of knowledge.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tagged: Beyond Logic, Forms of Communication, Poetry, Epistemology
“All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tagged: Reading, Writing, Best Reading Quotes
“A common advertising campaign strategy, especially in subway and bus ads, seems to involve trading on New Yorkers’ mythic negativity by reminding them what curmudgeons they still are. 'New Yorkers love us and they hate everything,' an ad for Oscar health insurance says. 'Over eight million people in NYC and we help you avoid them all,' the food delivery app Seamless says. It’s as if New York, now softened by safety and affluence, is in the position of trying to sell itself back to itself. Don’t worry, we’re still a bunch of jerks! It’s as if we need constant convincing that it’s still possible to feel like a New Yorker, even if New York doesn’t feel the way it used to.”
— Meghan Daum, Returning to a Gentler Gotham
Tagged: New York City, Oscar, Seamless
“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
— Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
Tagged: Knowledge, Never Ending Story
“From where, from whom, this mourning, or these tears of joy — I do not know; one must believe.”
— Jacques Derrida, Memoirs of the Blind
Tagged: Alien, Mourning
“How do you know that you’re a person, distinct from other people? By keeping certain things to yourself. You guard them inside you, because, if you don’t, there’s no distinction between inside and outside. Secrets are the way you know you even have an inside. ”
— Jonathan Franzen, Purity: A Novel
Tagged: The Secret of Secrecy, Identity
“I don’t like to tell people what I think is good or bad about the social and psychic changes caused by new media, but if you insist on pinning me down about my own subjective reactions as I observe the reprimitivization of our culture, I would have to say that I view such upheavals with total personal dislike and dissatisfaction. I do see the prospect of a rich and creative retribalized society — free of the fragmentation and alienation of the mechanical age — emerging from this traumatic period of culture clash; but I have nothing but distaste for the process of change. As a man molded within the literate Western tradition, I do not personally cheer the dissolution of that tradition through the electric involvement of all the senses: I don’t enjoy the destruction of neighborhoods by high-rises or revel in the pain of identity quest.”
— Marshall McLuhan, The Playboy Interview
Tagged: So Subjective