The tumblog of your friend, and mine, Jon Purkis.
Wed
Nov
23
“ They claim you never know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone. I know I’ve got it, I don’t know what y’all on.
Kanye West, in his saner days.
Fri
Oct
7
“ I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.
A particularly apt quote from Henry Ford. Watch the Everything Is A Remix video to see how nothing is an original work of genius but rather a reinterpretation of everything that has gone before it.
Fri
Sep
23
“ There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.
You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did.
Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.
Elizabeth Warren.
Fri
Aug
12
“ Create a society that values material things above all else. Strip it of industry. Raise taxes for the poor and reduce them for the rich and for corporations. Prop up failed financial institutions with public money. Ask for more tax, while vastly reducing public services. Put adverts everywhere, regardless of people’s ability to afford the things they advertise. Allow the cost of food and housing to eclipse people’s ability to pay for them. Light blue touch paper.
Andrew Maxwell
Wed
May
18
“ I’m not a meteorologist. All I know is 90 percent of the scientists say climate change is occurring. If 90 percent of the oncological community said something was causing cancer we’d listen to them.
Jon Huntsman
Mon
May
2
“ We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent of the world’s population; that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind; that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity; and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.
President John F. Kennedy, 1962.
Fri
Apr
1
“ It’s every band’s right, you shouldn’t have to do fucking Glee. And then the guy who created Glee is so offended that we’re not, like, begging to be on his fucking show
fuck that guy for thinking anybody and everybody should want to do Glee…The Glee guy, what a fucking jerk. Slash was the first one. [Ryan Murphy] wanted to do Guns ‘n’ Roses and Slash is like, ‘I hate fucking musicals. It’s worse than Grease.’ Then [Murphy’s] like, ‘Well, of course he’d say that, he’s a washed up ol’ rock star, that’s what they fucking do.’ And then Kings of Leon say, ‘No, we don’t want to be on your show.’ And then he’s like, ‘Snotty little assholes
’ And it’s just like, Dude, maybe not everyone loves Glee. Me included.
Dave Grohl on Ryan Murphy: ‘F-ck That Guy’ | Vulture
(via popculturebrain)
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Sun
Mar
27
“ I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell
