Biology Quote by Momus

Maybe it's the Calvinist guilt about capitalism or mercantilism. But, I like the idea of doing things that only exist for as long as…

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I enjoy the optimism of design, even though we can see it as doomed. But I'm telling most people that I'm not writing about…

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If you're a poet and you're using rhyme, rhyme generates ideas. If you're a songwriter and you're using melody and words together, they bounce…

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Every lie creates a parallel world.. a world in which it is true

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Pablo Picasso said, "Art is the lie that tells the truth," and it's not a terribly radical statement. It's always been that you can…

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“God is a tender pervert, and the angels are voyeurs.”

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Design is interesting because it's utopian. Art is often a jaundiced commentary on contemporary life. Design is always about the future; it's always about…

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If you look at the steps being taken towards Scottish independence, they're being dealt with politically in very dull and boring ways. So if…

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Quantum physics says that there is an infinite number of possibilities and parallels to the one that we know, and every event is also…

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Franz Kafka once said that happiness consists in having an ideal and not progressing towards it. If you did progress towards it, you'd be…

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I like the idea of doing things that only exist for as long as they exist, which are not archives, which are not sold…

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I'm bored with DJs. Anybody that puts the title DJ in front of their name immediately turns me off. I prefer the term "sampling,"…

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