I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)L. Frank Baum
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Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. They are more or less isomorphic to transformations of reality. The transformational structures of which knowledge consists are not copies of the transformations in reality; they are simply possible isomorphic models among which experience can enable us to choose. Knowledge, then, is a system of transformations that become progressively adequate.
Jean Piaget
When you clean them up, when you make movies respectable, you kill them. The wellspring of their art, their greatness, is in not being respectable.
Pauline Kael
There has been a great deal of disinformation spread around the world about me, both from inside the orgs and outside; there has been a great deal of rumor and generally a great deal of it is untrue (some of it is true) and I thought that you might like to hear about some things from me and look me over and then you make up your own mind.
Ronald (born L. Ron Hubbard DeWolfe
A normal chap, a man who likes creating things. A good worker in the morning, and a man who likes enjoying himself in the afternoon.
Ferruccio Lamborghini
There is no economic policy. That's really important to say. The general modus operandi of the Bushies is that they don't make policies to deal with problems. They use problems to justify things they wanted to do anyway. So there is no policy to deal with the lack of jobs. There really isn't even a policy to deal with terrorism. It's all about how can we spin what's happening out there to do what we want to do.
Paul Krugman
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