“I was buying old records a lot in my early teenage years and I was mostly drawn toward the artwork even more than the band itself. I loved the way the art set the scene for the music.” WayYearsArtRecordsSceneBandBuyingTeenageArtworkTeenage YearsOld Records Author:Arik Roper
“I was fortunate to be connected with bands who later became pioneers for certain genres of music scenes. And my art went along with them for that ride and became associated with it.” ArtCertainSceneBandConnectedGenreFortunatePioneersGenres Of Music Author:Arik Roper
“I have a goal to do my own animated film, something all my own.” FilmGoalMy OwnAnimatedAnimated Films Author:Arik Roper
“I grew up as an only child of two parents who had dropped out of high school. They had enormous respect for education and encouraged me as a child when I had strong interests in both math and science, but we really didn't have much by way of educational role modeling in our family.” WayChildrenTwoSchoolStrongParentInterestRolesGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolEducationalMathEnormousOur FamilyRole ModelsModelingOnly ChildMath And Science Author:Dale Jamieson
“I became religious and at 14 went to a boarding school 500 miles from home to begin theological studies. By the time I started university, politics had replaced religion in the economy of my enthusiasms but I had no idea what to study. My boarding school emphasized languages which I was bad at, and deemphasized math and science which I was good at.” IdeasHomeSchoolLanguageReligiousEconomyStudyUniversityMathMilesEnthusiasmNo IdeaReplacedTheologicalMath And Science Author:Dale Jamieson
“I played with English and Sociology in college but dropped out to work in the anti-war movement. I was going around denouncing the Viet Nam war as immoral but one day it dawned on me that I didn't know what that meant. I signed up for an ethics class at San Francisco State to find out the answer.” KnowsWarStatesAnswersClassMovementCollegeOne DayEthicsAnti WarSociologyImmoralSan FranciscoAnti War Movement Author:Dale Jamieson
“A great deal of our math, science, philosophy, and everyday behavior presupposes that stability and equilibria are the "default" states, and everything else involves some "perturbation." This is a mental model, a conceptual frame, a tacit belief, a presupposition - whatever you want to call it.” WantStatesPhilosophyBeliefDealsBehaviorModelsEverydayMathStabilityEquilibriumDefaultTacit Author:Dale Jamieson
“We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.” UniversePlanetsViolentRestless Author:Dale Jamieson
“Most of what we think of as distinctively human has occurred in the last 10,000 years in the Holocene - a period in which the Earth was abnormally quiet.” ThinkingYearsHumansEarthLastsPeriodsQuiet Author:Dale Jamieson