Manuel De Landa quotes

“Emergent properties result from interactions between individual parts, so it follows that a top down analytical approach that begins with the whole and dissects it into its constituent parts is bound to miss precisely those emergent properties”
-- Manuel De Landa

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“But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never be optimal but merely practical, applying rote responses to recurrent problems and employing a variety of contingency tactics to deal with unforeseen events.”
-- Manuel De Landa

Source : Manuel De Landa (1997). “A thousand years of nonlinear history”, Zone Books (NY)

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“Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.”
-- Manuel De Landa

Source : Interview, quod.lib.umich.edu.

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“We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history”
-- Manuel De Landa

Source : Manuel De Landa (1997). “A thousand years of nonlinear history”, Zone Books (NY)

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“I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?”

“Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 18 Dec. 1988

“He stopped and looked back at me "I love you too Pagan. I'll miss you. In every life.”

“Sometimes she wished for someone she could tell about her problems, just to be able to say, ‘I’m in love with a man and I can’t have him.’ But that would only lead to questions she couldn’t answer, so she kept the secret and the pain inside, hoping someday she would no longer feel as if half of her were missing.”

Source : Abigail Reynolds (2010). “Man Who Loved Pride and Prejudice: A modern love story with a Jane Austen twist”, p.252, Sourcebooks, Inc.

“I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.'”

“Without coffee something’s missing”

“I'm always a little leery about doing shows where I'm not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes. After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.”

“The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible...”

“The day of individual happiness has passed.”

“Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 52), 1937.