"Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something else altogether: the book is an extension of memory and imagination."

— Jorge Luis Borges

"Media was once solid, has now become liquid, and will eventually transition into the gaseous."

— Ahmed Salman

"Beautiful things don’t ask for attention."

— James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

"My fundamental interest, I suppose, is signs and proofs of other powers that lie hidden in us all; the extension, in other words, of human faculty. So many of my stories, therefore, deal with extension of consciousness; speculative and imaginative treatment of possibilities outside our normal range of consciousness. … Also, all that happens in our universe is natural; under Law; but an extension of our so limited normal consciousness can reveal new, extra-ordinary powers etc., and the word “supernatural” seems the best word for treating these in fiction. I believe it possible for our consciousness to change and grow, and that with this change we may become aware of a new universe. A “change” in consciousness, in its type, I mean, is something more than a mere extension of what we already possess and know. Each of the tales and novellas included within this edition have been selected to comment upon these fundamental interests – the vista hidden behind the curtain. And we hope that they shall assist in the task they were designed for."

— Algernon Blackwood

Structurally coloured wings of Morpho didius (via Wikipedia)

Structurally coloured wings of Morpho didius (via Wikipedia)

"Is it a symphonic cacophony or a cacophonous symphony?"

— Ahmed Salman

"In philosophy, downward causation is a causal relationship from higher levels of a system to lower-level parts of that system: for example, mental events acting to cause physical events. The term was originally coined in 1974 by the philosopher and social scientist Donald T. Campbell."

— Wikipedia

"Don’t oppose forces, use them."

— Buckminster Fuller

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."

— Douglas Adams

"Poets and artists live on frontiers. They have no feedback, only feedforward. They have no identities. They are probes."

— Marshall McLuhan