“I really wanted it to be organic and coming from my heart. So, I think maybe the initial thought of wanting to go in that direction, I had to wait until things happened in our world and in our country that fired me up enough where the words came out organically.” ThinkingWorldHeartCountryEnoughWantedWaitingHappenedMy HeartOur CountryOur WorldInitials Author:Joan Jett
“While THE NEW COOL takes the reader inside a season, limns a team and coaching staff, and masterfully recounts a gripping competition, this is anything but your conventional sports book. And not simply because the 'big game' is...a curious robotics contest. Like the kids he vividly captures, Neal Bascomb has himself performed a masterful bit of engineering here.” BookBigsKidsGamesBitsSportsTeamReaderSeasonsCompetitionCuriousCoachingCaptureEngineeringConventionalStaffContestsRoboticsGrippingCoaching Staff Author:L. Jon Wertheim
“Like a versatile baller, George Dohrmann swings seamlessly from position to position: investigative journalist, social critic, gifted storyteller. The result is a gem of a book that addresses THE question central to contemporary basketball: how does such an unseemly culture spring from such an essentially beautiful game? You'll come away rooting harder than ever for the kids and harder than ever against the basketball profiteers.” DoeBookKidsBeautifulCultureGamesSocialResultsPositionBasketballSpringHarderCriticsContemporaryJournalistAddressesSwingsGiftedStorytellerGemsVersatileBallers Author:L. Jon Wertheim
“That's certainly the roots of heavy metal. That whole sense of revolution and wanting to be powerful is definetly a puberty thing. Fans don't have to be offended by that. Everybody goes through it. That's why heavy metal is so powerful.” WholePowerfulFansRevolutionRootsHeavyMetalsOffendedPubertyHeavy Metal Author:Ian Christe
“Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and I don't quibble with them in the slightest. But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish.” IfsWantNeedsCoursesVirtueLowsSentencesRitualInquiryEarnestBiasedEntropyPleasantries Author:Brian Christian
“Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.” ArtMightSusceptibleConceptual ArtCompression Author:Brian Christian
“What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.” HumansShowsFailingTestsConstructionAgain And AgainShow MeFamiliarity Author:Brian Christian
“The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.” WritingFightingHarderPhonesChecksHelpfulSpellsSwimmingUnpredictableCompletionEntropyUnrulySwimming UpstreamSpell Check Author:Brian Christian
