Here’s an interesting little nugget from Syd Mead, conceptual designer for Blade Runner, Tron, Aliens, and more: The fashionable ideology that “artificial” lacks the inherent goodness of “natural” is an appealing, but hopelessly simplistic notion of the intellectually chic. Artifice is the result of a deliberate intent to make. Nature also “makes” things, using a [...]
Categories: Quotations,Science and Technology
Tagged: sci fi, Science and Technology, syd mead
- Published:
- February 21, 2010 – 9:33 pm
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- By Evan
Frank Herbert’s Dune novels are rife with quotable passages on any number of topics. Here’s one of my favorites, regarding the origin of law: The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life [...]
Categories: Law,Quotations
Tagged: dune, dune messiah, frank herbert, Law, the emperor paul muaddib, wikiquote
- Published:
- February 17, 2009 – 4:32 pm
- Author:
- By Evan