- Todd Chavez: But isnt the point of art less what people put into it and more what people get out of it?
- BoJack Horseman: Is that the point of art?
- Todd Chavez: Maybe. Or maybe art doesnt need a point. Maybe thats why its called art.
- BoJack Horseman: I cant tell if you are being smart or stupid.
- Todd Chavez: Oh, I never know
There’s that cycling of, ‘Wow, computers are so amazing. They can do all of this stuff. I am so pathetic as a human.’ But then there’s also this idea that computers are very vulnerable, and prone to disasters of their own. They’re not so different from us in terms of ultimately having a physical existence, and being subject to similar issues of entropy, and so on, just like we are.
Quien puede ir a la fuente no se conforma con la jarra.
La nostalgia es precisamente una fantasía que nunca tiene lugar, que se manifiesta por no poderse llevar a cabo.
Hay miedo a perder aquello que nunca fue.
Leonardo aprendió la armonía de las proporciones y que las matemáticas constituían el pincel de la naturaleza.
There is something unspeakably sinister about a machine that does nothing—absolutely nothing—except switch itself off.
- I’m sorry, ma’am, you can’t smoke here.
- It’s a fucking morgue!
La clave de la felicidad es una mezcla exacta de falta de perspectiva, falta de ambición y de entusiasmo en todo lo que hagas.
- And anyway that’s why they put rubbers on the end of pencils.
- To fuck hamsters?
- No, because people make mistakes.
It will be soft and hairy. [Salvador Dalí in the future of architecture, in response to Le Corbusier]
I love living where I work, I never have to leave. And I never have to work, and people have to do what I say.
People really care about their games.Think about, like, in movies, you might get people to care about your movie for a weekend. That’s the most you can aim for. But you have things like Overwatch, where there’s just a contingent of millions of people that are obsessed with this for a period of three years or more, whatever. Like, a giant cycle of time that you’re creating a thing in culture. And that doesn’t happen in movies or in music or in other things. Things tend to have a shorter half-life. I think it’s amazing.
El hecho de que quisiera estar sólo no sigfinicaba que me desagradara la gente.
When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first. However, this quote is also attributed to Horace Lamb
- No esperes que Bill Murray te organice una fiesta: móntala tú, y a lo mejor aparece.
- ¿Por qué anda usted en zig zag?
- Porque así tarda uno más en hacer el recorrido y se piensa mejor adonde va.
Part of that process is the pleasure of working with and mastering materials and forms, and the discovery of visual ideas that the artists has never seen
Cuando me subo a algo que se mueve, enseguida dejo de estar triste.
El secreto de la existencia humana no solo está en vivir, sino también en saber para qué se vive
Cuando eres padre ya no te puedes ver a través de tus propios ojos, sino a través de los suyos.
Espero que le hayan enterrado bocabajo, por si escarba que llegue a Australia.
¿No es todo el planeta una enorme casa de citas a escondidas con la salvedad de que se ha perdido el libro de registros?
I think there are people that help you become the person that you end up being, and you can be grateful for them even if they were never meant to be in your life forever. Im glad I knew you too.
I spent a lot of time alone, but I was rarely lonely because I like my own brain.
It’s not where you take things from, it’s where you take them to
Health is about accepting and perceiving and dealing with reality on reality’s terms.
There are only two industries that call their customers “users”: illegal drugs and software
- Who are you, and how did you get in here?
- I’m a locksmith and I’m a locksmith
La fantasía trata sobre cosas que no pueden suceder. La ciencia ficción trata sobre cosas que sí podrían suceder.
- Here, I tell pretty fortune for dollars.
- Now, you’ve never told me mine.
- This thing you want to do. You will fail. And they will win.
- Thats only my fortune today.
Pero la ciencia no me interesa. Me parece presuntuosa, analítica y superficial. Ignora el sueño, el azar, la risa, el sentimiento y la contradicción, cosas todas que me son preciosas. […] Yo he elegido mi lugar, está en el misterio. Sólo me queda respetarlo.
I have to think that right now there are people who are thinking about music in a way that is so counterintuitive that most of us wouldnt recognize it being music. And that is fucking punk.
The nostalgia for the past is handy as a substitute for that nostalgia for the future, that is other times was called revolution.
Qué largas son las tardes, qué cortos son los años
An expert is someone who, over many years, manages to remain confident enough to keep trying and humble enough to keep learning.
In socialism, everyone shares the wealth. In communism, everyone shares the poverty.
You got to be crazy. Its too late to be sane. Too late. You’ve got to go full-tilt bozo. ‘Cause you are only given a little spark of madness, and if you lose that…you’re nothing. Note, from me to you, don’t ever lose that, cause it keeps you alive.
Es inútil culpar al espejo si no te gusta lo que ves en él.
I think the New York City Marathon is racist. Ten thousand white people chasing five Africans.
The key to eternal happiness is low overhead and no debt.
- Mirando al océano Pacífico, comentó: Madre mía, cuantísima agua. Y eso solo es la superficie.
El que bebe en taza, hay un momento que sufre eclipse de taza.
To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
Trust nothing to the memory;’ for the memory becomes a fickle guardian when one interesting object is succeeded by another still more interesting.”
AI has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires ‘thinking’ but has failed to do most of what people and animals do ‘without thinking
Hasta cierto punto, aún vivía en el futuro, un hábito que suele asesinar la felicidad. […] La esencia de la felicidad es la absolutez. Se convierte automáticamente en el estado esencial de aquellos que viven plenametne en el presente continuo. No se requiere de ningún esfuerzo para definir o incluso obtener la felicidad, sino una enorme concentración para abandonar todo lo demás.
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.
Thats the fun thing about today, look how many people you made happy just with a little cup of gumbo.
Lo peor de la ambición es que no sabe bien lo que quiere.
Lo más importante del arte es el marco. Si John Cage, por ejemplo, dice “voy a ponerme un micrófono de contacto en la garganta y voy a beber un zumo de zanahoria y eso será mi composición”, entonces se considera que su gluglú es su composición porque lo puso dentro de un marco y así lo advirtió: “Es lo que hay, ahora quiero que esto sea música”. A partir de ahí, ya es cuestión de gusto. Sin el anuncio del marco se trata de un tío que está tragando zumo de zanahoria.
Laughter is just the honey, the honey that sweetens the bitter medicine.
Chew-Zi: Dios promete la vida eterna, nosotros la proporcionamos.
Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.
You are what you do. Not what you say, not what you believe, not how you vote, but what you spend your time on.
Qué, Don Ramón, ordeñando su mala leche? [A Ramón del Valle-Inclán cuando éste se mesaba la barba.]
Dying is easy. It’s comedy that’s hard
The curious elder isn’t interested in judging youth, they’re interested in learning from them.
A tree is a slow explosion of seed.
El arte desafía a la tecnología y ésta inspira al arte.