#vastness

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#business #computer #computer science #intellectual #joy

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness. ↗

— Emily Carr

#fact #mood #something #spirit #stands

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#does #knowledge #our #perception #sufficient

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#against #ancestors #because #becomes #boots