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“Popular culture is made by the people, not produced by the culture industry. All the culture industries can do is produce a repertoire of texts or cultural resources for the various formations of the people to use or reject in the ongoing process of producing their popular culture.”

— John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture

“The intensity of concentration required to play the games results in the loss of social identity and the ideology it bears; it is an evasion of the forces of subordination. The player's body interacts with the signifiers on the screen in a pure eroticism of the text, and the muscular spasm followed…”

— John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture

“The aesthetics of the bourgeoisie demand that their art should be valued to the degree of its appeal to human and aesthetic universals rather than to the specifics of the here and now: even though some art may be 'realistic' and refer explicitly to the details of the everyday, the middle-class 'appr…”

— John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture

“It is the social system that makes violence popular, not the 'baseness' of the citizens: the roots of violence are to be found in society, not in individual morality. So it is predictable that the movement to eradicate violence from our screens would be led by middle-class moralists. By 'blaming' so…”

— John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture

“Relevance is discovered or produced by the reader; it is the moment and process of production in the cultural economy that takes the text beyond its role as commodity in the financial. Popular discrimination, then, does not operate between or within texts in terms of their quality, but rather in the…”

— John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture

“Popular discrimination is concerned with functionality rather than quality, for it is concerned with the potential uses of the text in everyday life.”

— John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture

“It isn't enough to pick a path — you must go down it. By doing so, you see things you couldn't possibly see when you started out; you may not like what you see, some of it may be confusing, but at least you will have, as we like to say, 'explored the neighborhood.' The key point here is that even if…”

— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc

“He didn't notice a single face as he took a seat. He saw neither teacher nor students, and was aware only of the heavenly light in the room, an orange glow from the autumnal foliage outside. The room seemed full of a sweet viscous liquid, a honey nearly light as air, which he breathed in. Time slowe…”

— Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

“Numbers are important. Number of users is important. So are lots of other things. Different services create value in different ways. Trust your gut as much (or more) than the numbers. Figure out what matters and build something good.”

— Evan Williams, Medium.com

“It is not reality's problem, however, that it has immeasurable processes. Rather, it is the problem of scientism, which limits nature to the measurable.”

— Ede Frecska, Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies

“Travel across great distances in outer space may not be the only way to reach worlds that are different from our own, seemingly remote in time and space. Moreover, it may be unnecessary to restrict this search using methods based upon a view of reality limited to what is physical and measurable. It…”

— Rick Strassman, Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies

“The things we see with the aid of a microscope, for example, are utterly alien, but because they are perceived in a state within which most of us exist most of the time, we can validate them consensually. In the case of a microscope, however, we are dealing with an extension of our senses via hardwa…”

— Rick Strassman, Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies

“It is comforting to know I am back on earth again... Everything has a spiritual tinge, but is so real. I feel that I have landed.”

— Anonymous, Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies

“Consciousness is a mystery, and the association of consciousness with matter is even more mysterious. How does a particular collection of molecules and energy combine to create awareness? Further, what determines the quality and content of consciousness?”

— Rick Strassman, Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies

“There is an old story that after Creation, God was wondering where to hide the ultimate secrets of the universe. The Almighty contemplated: Should I hide them deep in the oceans? No; humans can invent submarines and these secrets can fall into unworthy hands. Should I hide them in the remote corners…”

— Rick Strassman, Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies

“We exist in what I visualize as a sort of quantum soup, wherein what we experience as solid matter is actually the binding energies at an extreme end of the electromagnetic spectrum, the opposite end to the more familiar energies such as light and heat. If we were to venture into this end of the spe…”

— Stephen Hickman, Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies

“The modernist International Style championed by the Bauhaus taught that design should be simple, yet have an expressive spirit.”

— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“When I look back over my long life, if there is one thing that leaps out at me it is the role of luck and chance in our lives. From this particular string of accidental happenings all the rest followed.”

— Katharine Graham, Personal History

“Mike may have gotten a lot of things about journalism wrong, but this one he got right: The duty of a media owner is to readers first, following very closely by a duty to support their team. All other confrontations are survivable as long as you do right by those two groups.”

— Sarah Lacy, Pando.com

“I think I can safely say that the highlight of the relationship was the eight or so seconds it took him to walk through my front door for the first time and behold the awesomeness of my taste and self-sufficiency (and he liked the place; he really, really liked it!). In one perfect moment, the house…”

— Meghan Daum, Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House