San francisco Quote by Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“The Valley might not actually make much in the way of tangible goods, but like industrial centers before it, it’s the place where the…

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus

Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard, and Columbo.…

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“Tom and I help in common the hope that there might be a geographical ticket out of the problems of indecision, boredom, and the…

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“The experiences of wanting less, needing less, and giving more allow us to withdraw from the psychic conflicts that cause so much pain for…

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“The main problem with desires...is that they're not nearly as authoritative as we wish they were...How can you find some structure that allows you…

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“I wondered...if the difference between people who believed in preparation and those who believed in proof...wasn't the difference between those who worked constantly for…

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“As rivers flow into the sea and so lose name and form, attains the Supreme Being, the Self-Luminous, the Infinite.”

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“an MIT AI PhD can generally walk alone into an investor meeting wearing a coconut-shell bra, perform a series of improvised birdcalls, and walk…

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“breaks from the ordered configurations of everyday life...'anti-structures.' The chief characteristic of the anti-structure...is...'communitas' - a spontaneous, rich, classless, nonhierarchical association of people who…

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“Anything we have chosen to do invites the specters of all that we haven't chosen - this is the real mystery of choice.”

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus

The promise of the Internet-as-Alexandria is more than the rolling plenitude of information. It's the ability of individuals to choreograph that information in idiosyncratic…

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“time...counts for precisely something because its quantity is fixed”

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus