Continue; I’ll discover where you sweat (Kierkegaard).

– John Cage

Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) by John Cage @ Bookshop

Quotes

The daily warmth we experience, my father said, is not transmitted by Sun to Earth, but is what Earth does in response to Sun.

Effect of videophone on travel? That we’ll stay home, settling like gods for impressions we’ll give of being everywhere at once?

Two people making same kind of music is one music too many.

Do not imagine there aren’t many things to do. We need for instance an utterly wireless technology. Fuller domes (dome within dome, translucent, plants between) will give impression of living in no home at all (outdoors), so all technology must move toward way things were before man began changing them : identification with nature in her manner of operation, complete mystery.

Commune problem: communes’re filled with gurus, needing (not having) others “to guru.”

…agreed man’s works no matter how great are pygmy compared with those of nature. Nature, pressed, will respond with grand and shocking adjustment of creation.

When I had a Jaguar, I noticed anyone else who drove a Jaguar. Now I’m wearing jeans instead of suits, I notice nearly everyone.

Optimism is continuous. space in which it operates expands or contracts.