Total Eclipse

Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 -December 31, 1980) “We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. “

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) “The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. “

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) “There are no facts, only interpretations.“

Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) “The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. “

born Alisa Zinov’evna Rosenbaum (1905 – 1982) “I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.“

Salvador Felip Jacint Dalí Domènech (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) “I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.“

pen name of Eric Arthur Blair (June 25, 1903 – January 21, 1950) “Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.“

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (April 26, 1889 – April 29, 1951) “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”

Charles Hoy Fort (6 August 1874 – 3 May 1932) “It is not possible to define. Nothing has ever been finally found out. Because there is nothing final to find out.”

Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) “The real war is between those who are turned on, and those who are uptight.” (kudos to BoingBoing) Addendum: Joi Ito: 10 years since Timothy Leary’s death.