Some places don't exist on a map - but I still visit them. Some visitors' books don't exist either - but I still write in them.
Friday, June 13, 2008
Day 23: Coffee breaks, cab rides, green rooms...
"... real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the interstitial spaces -- what Dr. Seuss calls "the waiting place." Hans Ulrich Obrist once organized a science and art conference with all of the infrastructure of a conference -- the parties, chats, lunches, airport arrivals — but with no actual conference. Apparently it was hugely successful and spawned many ongoing collaborations."
Would-be blogger campeuno once announced to a friend that she was thinking of keeping a diary: "I don't intend to publish. I am merely going to record the facts for the information of God." "Don't you think God already knows the facts?" the friend asked. "Yes," said campeuno. "He knows the facts, but He does not know this version of the facts."*
(* Original dialogues by physicists Leo Szilard and Hans Bethe as recorded by Hans Christian von Baeyer in 'Taming the Atom'.)