Jedediah Purdy quotes

“A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as a symbol of the timeless libertarian paradox: Monopoly verging on feudalism emerges from unregulated competition to bite libertarianism in the posterior.”
-- Jedediah Purdy

Source : "The God of the Digerati". Essay in the American Prospect Magazine, prospect.org. March-April 1998.

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“It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.”
-- Jedediah Purdy

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“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”

“Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.”

“People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?”

“Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.”

“We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.”

“Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.”

“If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.”

“In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.”

“Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small.”