— Dan Simmons, buch Hyperion
Quelle: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 191)
Quelle: Steve Jobs
— Dan Simmons, buch Hyperion
Quelle: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 191)
— John Perry Barlow American poet and essayist 1947 - 2018
John Perry Barlow 2.0 (2004)
Kontext: You now have two distinct ways of gathering information beyond what you yourself can experience. One of them is less a medium than an environment — the Internet — with a huge multiplicity of points of view, lots of different ways to find out what's going on in the world. Lots of people are tuned to that, and a million points of view have bloomed. It creates a cacophony of viewpoints that doesn't have any political coherence at all, a beautiful melee, but it doesn't have the capacity to create large blocs of belief.
The other medium, TV, has a much smaller share of viewers than at any time in the past, but those viewers get all their information there. They get turned into a very uniform belief block. TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I’ve ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob.
„Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.“
— Thomas Sowell American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author 1930
— Robert M. Pirsig, buch Zen und die Kunst ein Motorrad zu warten
Introduction
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)
Kontext: What follows is based on actual occurrences. Although much has been changed for rhetorical purposes, it must be regarded in its essence as fact. However, it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It's not very factual on motorcycles, either.
— Harsh Narain Indian writer 1921 - 1995
The Ayodhya temple-mosque dispute: Focus on Muslim sources (1993)
„But when mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill!“
— Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
Canto III, line 125.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
— Camille Paglia American writer 1947
Quelle: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 13
— W. Douglas P. Hill British Indologist 1884 - 1962
Quelle: The Bhagavadgītā (1973), p. 73. (1.)
— Charles Stross, The Laundry Files
Quelle: The Laundry Files, The Fuller Memorandum (2010), Chapter 7, “Beer and Tea” (p. 111)
„Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.“
— Marcel Duchamp French painter and sculptor 1887 - 1968
„Man keeps looking for a truth to fit his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.“
— Werner Erhard Critical Thinker and Author 1935
[Adelaide Bry, 1976, est, 60 Hours that Transform Your Life, New York, Avon, 17]
Attributed
— Stanley Baldwin Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1867 - 1947
Speech at the Cambridge Union (March 1924), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), pp. 94-95.
1924
— Hannah Arendt, buch Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft
Quelle: On the subject “alternate facts”. Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951. As quoted by Scroll Staff (December 04, 2017): Ideas in literature: Ten things Hannah Arendt said that are eerily relevant in today’s political times https://web.archive.org/web/20191001213756/https://scroll.in/article/856549/ten-things-hannah-arendt-said-that-are-eerily-relevant-in-todays-political-times. In: Scroll.in. Archived from the original https://scroll.in/article/856549/ten-things-hannah-arendt-said-that-are-eerily-relevant-in-todays-political-times on October 1, 2019.
„Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.“
— Virginia Woolf English writer 1882 - 1941
Quelle: Selected Diaries
— Thom Gunn English poet 1929 - 2004
"Elvis Presley,", in The Sense of Movement (1957).
Other
„Order… is information that fits a purpose.“
— Ray Kurzweil Author, scientist, inventor, and futurist 1948
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)
— Viktor Tsoi Soviet rock musician (1962-1990) 1962 - 1990
In an 1987 interview, "Aluminum Cucumbers" http://russiantumble.com/tag/viktortsoi/ (7 November 2012)