Benjamin Bratton Quotes

#1. Given the diverse raiment life sports, one never knows what the guises of the gods may be.

Stephanie Mills

#2. Every day, we hear that somebody got saved to our music from all over the world. The music reaches people. It can encourage them. I feel like I have to do it because there's somebody out there who needs to hear the gospel.

Andrae Crouch

#3. Tomorrow, may I have your yesterday?

Benjamin H. Bratton

#4. However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures.

Nigel Lawson

#5. The real nightmare, worse than the one in which the Big Machine wants to kill you, is the one in which it sees you as irrelevant, or not even as a discrete thing to know.

Benjamin H. Bratton

#6. Platforms don't look like how they work and don't work like how they look.

Benjamin H. Bratton

#7. The Stack terraforms the host planet by drinking and vomiting its elemental juices and spitting up mobile phones.

Benjamin H. Bratton

#8. Yes, you are a battery.

Benjamin H. Bratton

#9. Said in reference to Ludwig Wittgenstein: Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target others cannot even see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#10. On his brow a leaf of oaken, Cangeling child shall be his fate. Understanding words strange spoken, Chased by anger, fear, and hate.

David Clement-Davies

#11. It is common to learn from experience what we already believe, then repeat the experience to prove what we believe we learned. The process was invented by religion and perfected by science.

Dee Hock

#12. It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart.

Julie Adams

#13. Unlike a bow and arrow, a camera by its nature ensures that some kind of target will always be hit, if not necessarily the intended target nor in the intended way.

Luc Sante

#14. Airports are not simulations of cities; rather cities are simulations of airports.

Benjamin H. Bratton

#15. Money is for making things happen.

Richard Branson

#16. Look to the Lord and His strength; seek His face always

Anonymous

#17. I told my caddie today that I am in the position that I want to be in. That this is what I have been waiting for, to win my tenth victory. I said that I am going to do everything that I can do today and that nothing is going to stop me.

Annika Sorenstam

#18. All of these guys have got someone to go home to after the fight. They've got their baby, I've got mine: Jamie Atwood. That's who I love. He's the one I go home to at night, and who patches me up after I get beaten down.

Maris Black

#19. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

Bruce Lee

#20. As the shape of political geography and the architecture of planetary-scale computation as a whole, The Stack is an accidental megastructure, one that we are building both deliberately and unwittingly and is in turn building us in its own image.

Benjamin H. Bratton

#21. A True Friend who leaves heart felt messages, can be a lighthouse to others, sharing light and truth, which comes from their heart.

Tom Baker