Manuel De Landa Quotes

#1. The very idea of massified advertising meant that large cirulation newpapers were not in the business of selling information to people but rather of selling the attention of their readers to commercial concerns ... to tap into the resorvoir of resources constitutred by the growing urban populations

Manuel De Landa

#2. I know that the work is good and they're excited over at ABC and Disney and it's getting some really good feedback. It's not just a little, insignificant kind of role. It's meaty, which is good.

Josh Holloway

#3. Emergent properties result from interactions between individual parts, so it follows that a top down analytical approach that begins with the whole and dissects it into its constituent parts is bound to miss precisely those emergent properties

Manuel De Landa

#4. I was a precocious child.

Pippa Evans

#5. We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history

Manuel De Landa

#6. Do not pity yourself. If you wallow in self-pity, life will be an endless nightmare.

Kafka Asagiri

#7. Only learning oneself better, and understanding one's place in the world, made the touch of another mundane.

N.K. Jemisin

#8. The infinite resource of creativity has and always will solve problems.

Brandon Mullan

#9. Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.

Manuel De Landa

#10. You can't look at someone and tell what they've been through. The scars that hurt the most are never visible on the surface.
~Caillen, page 243.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. Imperfect knowledge, incomplete assessment of feedback, limited memory and recall, as well as poor problem-solving skills result in a form of rationality that attains not optimal decisions but more or less satisfactory compromises between conflicting constraints.

Manuel De Landa