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Seymour Papert

Seymour Papert (February 29, 1928 – July 31, 2016) was an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and prominent educator.

Quotes

 * Should the computer program the kid or should the kid program the computer?
 * Spacewar ROLLING STONE · 7 DECEMBER 1972
 * Now, given that picture of a rapid change of society, one would expect to see a rapid evolution of the institutions charged with preparing the young for it. We do not see this. We see a much slower rate of evolution of the school and that means we're seeing a bigger and bigger gap between school and society. This gap is what I believe is responsible for the deterioration of performance in our schools and our educational systems. Because the children can see this; they can see that school is irrelevant. They feel that the pace of school and the mood of the school culture is out of sync with the society in which they live. And so it becomes harder and harder to get them to buy into the idea that school is satisfying their needs, that school is a bridge to the 21st century, as our political leaders keep on reiterating.
 * The 11th Colin Cherry Memorial Lecture on Communication (1998)

Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (1980)

 * Many children who grow up in our cities are surrounded by the artifacts of science but have good reason to see them as belonging to "the others"; in many cases they are perceived as belonging to the social enemy.
 * Introduction

 * In my vision, space-age objects, in the form of small computers, will cross these cultural barriers to enter the private worlds of children everywhere. They will do so not as mere physical objects. This book is about how computers can be carriers of powerful ideas and of the seeds of cultural change, how they can help people form new relationships with knowledge that cut across the traditional lines separating humanities from sciences and knowledge of the self from both of these. It is about using computers to challenge current beliefs about who can understand what and at what age. It is about using computers to question standard assumptions in developmental psychology and in the psychology of aptitudes and attitudes. It is about whether personal computers and the cultures in which they are used will continue to be the creatures of "engineers" alone or whether we can construct intellectual environments in which people who today think of themselves as "humanists" will feel part of, not alienated from, the process of constructing computational cultures.
 * Introduction

 * In many schools today, the phrase "computer-aided instruction" means making the computer teach the child. One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer and, in doing so, both acquires a sense of master over a piece of the most modern and powerful technology and establishes an intimate contact with some of the deepest ideas from science, from mathematics, and from the art of intellectual model building.
 * Introduction

 * A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain metaphors, images, and ways of thinking. The language used strongly colors the computer culture. It would seem to follow that educators interested in using computers and sensitive to cultural influences would pay particular attention to the choice of language. But nothing of the sort has happened. On the contrary, educators... have accepted certain programming languages in much the same way as they accepted the QWERTY keyboard. An informative example is the way in which the programming language BASIC has established itself as the obvious language to use in teaching children how to program computers... Today, and in fact for several years now, the cost of computer memory has fallen to the point where any remaining economic advantages of using BASIC are insignificant. Yet in most high schools, the language remains almost synonymous with programming, despite the existence of other computer languages that are demonstrably easier to learn and are richer in the intellectual benefits that can come from learning them. The situation is paradoxical. The computer revolution has scarcely begun, but is already breeding its own conservatism.
 * Chapter 1, Computers and Computer Cultures

 * BASIC is to computation what QWERTY is to typing. Many teachers have learned BASIC, many books have been written about it, many computers have been built in such a way that BASIC is "hardwired" into them. In the case of the typewriter, we noted how people invent "rationalizations" to justify the status quo. In the case of BASIC, the phenomenon has gone much further, to the point where it resembles ideology formation. Complex arguments are invented to justify features of BASIC that were originally included because the primitive technology demanded them or because alternatives were not well enough known at the time the language was designed.
 * Chapter 1, Computers and Computer Cultures

 * One might ask why the teachers do not notice the difficulty children have in learning BASIC. The answer is simple: Most teachers do not expect high performance from most students, especially in a domain of work that appears to be as "mathematical" and "formal" as programming. Thus the culture's general perception of mathematics as inaccessible bolsters the maintenance of BASIC, which in turn confirms these perceptions.
 * Chapter 1, Computers and Computer Cultures

 * It is not uncommon for intelligent adults to turn into passive observers of their own incompetence in anything but the most elementary mathematics. Individuals may see the direct consequences of this intellectual paralysis in terms of limiting job possibilities. But the indirect, secondary consequences are even more serious. One of the main lessons learned by most people in math class is a sense of having rigid limitations. They learn a balkanized image of human knowledge which they come to see as a patchwork of territories separated by impassable iron curtains.
 * Chapter 2, Mathophobia: The Fear of Learning

 * An unknown but certainly significant proportion of the population has almost completely given up on learning. These people seldom, if ever engage in deliberate learning and see themselves as neither competent at it nor likely to enjoy it. The social and personal cost is enormous... Deficiency becomes identity: "I can't learn French, I don't have an ear for languages;" "I could never be a businessman, I don't have a head for figures;"... These beliefs are often repeated ritualistically, like superstitions... Although these negative self-images can be overcome, in the life of and individual they are extremely robust and powerfully self-reinforcing. If people believe firmly enough that they cannot do math, they will usually succeed in preventing themselves from doing whatever they recognize as math. The consequences of such self-sabotage is personal failure, and each failure reinforces the original belief. And such beliefs may be most insidious when held not only by individuals, but by our entire culture.
 * Chapter 2, Mathophobia: The Fear of Learning

 * Our children grow up in a culture permeated with the idea that there are "smart people" and "dumb people". The social construction of the individual is as a bundle of aptitudes. There are people who are "good at math" and people who "can't do math." Everything is set up for children to attribute their first unsuccessful or unpleasant learning experiences to their own disabilities. As a result, children perceive failure as relegating them either to the group of "dumb people" or, more often, to a group of people "dumb at x" (where, as we have pointed out, x often equals mathematics). Within this framework children will define themselves in terms of their limitations, and this definition will be consolidated and reinforced throughout their lives. Only rarely does some exceptional event lead people to reorganize their intellectual self-image in such a way as to open up new perspectives on what is learnable.
 * Chapter 2, Mathophobia: The Fear of Learning

 * I have asked many teachers and parents what they thought mathematics to be and why it was important to learn it. Few held a view of mathematics that was sufficiently coherent to justify devoting several thousand hours of a child's life to learning it, and children sense this. When a teacher tells a student that the reason for those many hours of arithmetic is to be able to check the change at the supermarket, the teacher is simply not believed. Children see such "reasons" as one more example of adult double talk. The same effect is produced when children are told school math is "fun" when they are pretty sure that teachers who say so spend their leisure hours on anything except this allegedly fun-filled activity. Nor does it help to tell them that they need math to become scientists---most children don't have such a plan. The children can see perfectly well that the teacher does not enjoy math any more than they do and that the reason for doing it is simply that it has been inscribed into the curriculum. All of this erodes children's confidence in the adult world and the process of education. And I think it introduces a deep element of dishonestly into the education relationship.
 * Chapter 2, Mathophobia: The Fear of Learning

 * The kind of mathematics foisted on children in schools is not meaningful, fun, or even very useful. This does not mean that an individual child cannot turn it into a valuable and enjoyable personal game. For some the game is scoring grades; for others it is outwitting the teacher and the system. For many, school math is enjoyable in its repetitiveness, precisely because it is so mindless and dissociated that it provides a shelter from having to think about what is going on in the classroom. But all this proves is the ingenuity of children. It is not a justifications for school math to say that despite its intrinsic dullness, inventive children can find excitement and meaning in it.
 * Chapter 2, Mathophobia: The Fear of Learning

Quotes about Papert

 * Frank Rosenblatt... invented a very simple single-layer device called a Perceptron. ...Unfortunately, its influence was damped by Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert, who proved [in Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry (1969)] that the Perceptron architecture and learning rule could not execute the "exclusive OR" and therefore could not learn. This killed interest in Perceptrons for a number of years... It is possible to construct multilayer networks of simple units that could easily execute the exclusive OR... Minsky and Papert would have contributed more if they had produced a solution to this problem rather than beating the Perceptron to death.
 * Francis Crick, The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul (1994)

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Beastie Boys

The Beastie Boys is an American alternative hip hop music group from New York City: Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Licensed to Ill

 * Yo ho ho and a bottle of Brass Monkey,And when my girlie shakes her head, she sure gets funky.
 * Rhymin' and Steali

 * Down with Adrock and Mike D. and you ain't,And I got more juice than Picasso got paint.
 * - "The New Style"

 * Girls with boyfriends are the kind I like,I'll steal your honey like I stole your bike.
 * - "The New Style"

 * Some voices got treble, some voices got bass,We got the kind of voices that are in your face!
 * - "The New Style"

 * D. pulled me over said, 'Hide your gold, The girl is crafty like ice is cold!
 * She's Crafty

 * I keep a pistol in my pocket so you better be cautious, Fly around the world, but it kinda makes me nauseous.
 * Posse in Effect

 * I'm the king of the classroom, coolin' in the back, My teacher had beef so I gave her a smack, She chased me out of class, she was strapped with a ruler, Went to the bathroom, rolled myself a wooler.
 * "Because I'm hard hittin', always bitten, cool as hell, I got the tree on my mirror so my car won't smell.
 * Slow Ride

 * Got a girl in the Castle and one in the pagoda You know I got rhymes like Abe Vigoda.
 * Posse in Effect

 * Girls - to do the dishes Girls - to clean up my room Girls - to do the laundry Girls - and in the bathroom.
 * Girls

 * Man, living at home is such a drag Now your mom threw away your best porno mag (Busted!).
 * Fight for Your Right (to Party)

 * Lookin' for a girl, I ran into a guy His name was M.C.A., I said "Howdy ", he said,  "Hi."
 * Paul Revere

 * Now my name is M.C.A. I've got a license to kill. I think you know what time it is it's time to get ill.  Now what do we have here, an outlaw and his beer?  I run this land, you understand, I made myself clear.
 * Paul Revere

 * Pistol packing, Monkey drinking, no money bum,I come from Brooklyn 'cause that's where I'm from.
 * Hold It Now - Hit It

 * Because you're pud-slappin, ball-flappin, got that JuiceMy name is Mike D and I can do the Jerry Lewis
 * Hold It Now - Hit It

 * We got the bottle, you got the cup, Come on everybody let's get fff...up!
 * Brass Monkey

Paul's Boutique

 * "Got arrested at the Mardi Gras for jumping on a float,My man M.C.A.'s got a beard like a billy goat." - "Shake Your Rump"

 * "The Patty Duke, The Wrench, and then I bust The Tango,Got more rhymes than Jamaica's got mangoes." - "Shake Your Rump"

 * "Running from the law and the press and the parents,`Is your name Michael Diamond?`No mine's Clarence." - "Shake Your Rump"

 * "Sometimes known as the leader of the homeless,Sometimes drunk and he's always phoneless." - "Johnny Ryall"

 * "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?I egged the chicken, and then I ate his leg." - "Egg Man"

 * "Bust a Travis Bickle when I feel that I'm gettin' pushed
 Don't step to me cuz you're gonna get mushed" - "High Plains Drifter"

 * "No one really knows what I'm talkin' about,
And yeah that's right, my name's Yauch." - "The Sounds Of Science"

 * "Break up with your girl, it ended in tears,
Vincent Van Gogh, go and mail that ear." - "Hey Ladies"

 * "There's more to me than you'll ever know,
And I got more hits than Sadaharu Oh" - "Hey Ladies"

 * "Rapid fire Louie, like Rambo got bullets
 I'ma die harder, like my kid Bruce Willis" - "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun"

 * "Predetermined destiny is who I am
 You got your finger on the trigger like the Son of Sam" - "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun"

 * "I am like "Clockwork Orange", goin' off on the town
 I've got homeboys bonanza to beat your ass down" - "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun"

 * "First I drink, then I got drunk I barfed, and then I stunk I'm short, but I can dunk And my dick is a tree trunk" - "Car Thief (demo version)"

 * "I'm a writer, a poet, a genius; I know it
 I don't buy cheeba; I grow it." - "Car Thief"

 * "You're all mixed up like pasta primavera Yo, why'd you throw that chair at Geraldo Rivera, man?" - "What Comes Around"

 * "I've got more stories than JD's got Salinger
I hold the title, and you are the challenger" - "Shadrach"

 * "Pickpocket gangsters paying their debts Caught a bullet in the lung from Bernhard Goetz" - "Stop That Train"

 * "I ride around town cuz my ride is fly I shot a man in Brooklyn just to watch him die" - "Hello Brooklyn"

 * "Girl, you should be with me, you should drop that bum Cuz I got more flavor than Fruit Striped Gum" - "Lay It On Me"

Check Your Head

 * "Money Mark, you know he's not having it,
Just give him some wood and he'll build you a cabinet." - "Finger Lickin' Good"

 * "`Professor, whats another word for pirates' treasure?`
`Why I think it's booty!`" - "Professor Booty"

 * "You shoulda' never started something you couldn't finish,
'Cause writing rhymes to me is like Popeye to spinach." - "Professor Booty"

Ill Communication (1994)

 * I've got more rhymes than I've got grey hairs And that's a lot because I've got my share
 * Sure Shot

 * I want to say a little something that's long overdue The disrespect to women has got to be through To all the mothers and sisters and the wives and friends I want to offer my love and respect to the end
 * Sure Shot

Hello Nasty

 * "Sometimes I like to brag, sometimes I'm soft spoken,
And when I'm in Holland I eat the pannenkoeken." - "Super Disco Breakin`"

 * "I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast,
But I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast." - "The Move"

 * Have you seen what I mean,
I'm the little gnome that's in your dreams."
 * Remote Control''

 * So I got a little something for your pay-per-view,
Like Don King I've got the crazy hair do.
 * Remote Control

 * "Well ice is cold and fire's hot." - "Unite"

I like my sugar with coffee and cream" -
 * If you try to knock me you'll get mocked I'll stir fry you in my wok
 * Intergalactic

 * If you got bad breath then maybe try scope And if you wash your ass you best use soap
 * Unite

 * So kick off your shoes and put on your swim fins 'Cause when it comes to quarries I'm known to swim
 * Body Movin

The Sounds of Science

 * "Well it might sound odd, it might sound corny,
But here's some sex rhymes for those that are horny." - "Boomin' Granny"

 * "A sassy, sophisticated, sexy lady,
Well I'm twenty-six, and you're eighty." - "Boomin` Granny"

 * "Because I saw you at the checkout line,
You dropped your coupons, and you were lookin' fine." - "Boomin` Granny"

 * "Sophisticated, and so mature,
I couldn't really care if you were fifty, or seventy-four." - "Boomin' Granny"

 * Dip dip dive, so-socialize Open up your ears, and clean out your eyes.

To the 5 Boroughs

 * "All you Trekkies and TV addicts
Don't mean to diss don't mean to bring static
All you Klingons in your grandma's house
Grab your backstreet friend and get loud" - "Ch-Check It Out"

 * "I said Doc, what's the condition,
I'm a man that's on a mission,
He said son, you'd better listen,
Stuck in your ass is an electrician." - "Ch-Check It Out"

 * "I went to get a loan and they asked my race,
I wrote down human inside the space,
It's a disgrace how they try to debase,
It ain't the banks damn business how my lineage trace." - "Right Right Now Now"

 * "Hey could you please pass me the peas,
And let me get a tissue if you think your'e gonna sneeze." - "Rhyme The Rhyme Well"

 * "Adrock, A.K.A.,
Sharp cheddar, my rhymes are better." - "Triple Trouble"

 * "Which one of you schnooks took my rhyme book? Look,
Give it back, you're wicky wack." - "Hey Fuck You"

 * "I've got billions and billions of rhymes to flex,
'Cause I've got more rhymes than Carl Sagan's got turtlenecks." - "Hey Fuck You"

 * "Your rhymes are fake like a Canal Street watch,
You're hearing me and you're like `Oh my god it's Sasquatch!`" - "Hey Fuck You"

 * "I don't care what you heard, or care what you seen,
I swear it wasn't me in Bear magazine,
Because I'm not that hairy, oh contrary." - "Oh Word?"

 * "What'chu talkin' 'bout Willis? Who the illest?
You know my name's Adam, stop callin' me Phyllis." - "The Brouhaha"

 * "I'm the one that won that dance contest,
'Cause you know I dance the best." - "All Lifestyles"

 * "Like George Whipple on New York 1,
Got a hairy ass and that's no fun!." - "That`s It That`s All"

Dance Moves

 * "October 31st, that is my date of birth,
I got to the party and I did the Smurf." -The New Style

 * "I do the Smurf, the Popeye, and the Jerry Lewis,
I like Bullwinkle but I don't like Moose." - Posse In Effect

 * "Mike D.'s day off everyday of the week,
I got to the party and I did the Freak" - Posse In Effect

 * "Because you're pud-slapping, ball-flapping, got that juice,
My name's Mike D. and I can do that Jerry Lewis." - Hold It Now - Hit It

 * "The Patty Duke, the Wrench, and then I bust the Tango,
Got more rhymes than Jamaica got mangos." - Shake Your Rump

 * "Jump the turnstiles, never pay the toll,
I did the Doo-Wah Diddy and bust 'em with the Pre-Roll." - 3-Minute Rule

 * "I am known to do the Wop,
Also known for the Flintstone Flop." - Intergalactic

 * "I wanna do the Freak until the break of dawn,
Tell me party people, is that so wrong?" - Body` Movin

 * "Now I'm a break it down to the brass tacks,
Do the Biz Mark dance and the Cabbage Patch." - Alive

 * "Well I'm a freaky streaker like Winnie the Pooh,
T-shirt and no pants and I dance the Bugaloo." - That`s It That`s All

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The Bedford Diaries

The Bedford Diaries (2006) is a television drama series that explores the excitement and intensity of New York City college life through the eyes of six students with different backgrounds, experiences and ages, who are brought together in a provocative Human Behavior and Sexuality seminar.

I'm Gonna Love College (Pilot) [1.1]

 * Sarah: What would I change about my sexual past? I'd change my own head. I'd admit that I'm angry, that I'm wounded, that my heart was broken. Seems like we're so busy hooking up, sexually networking, making connections. Does sex even mean anything anymore? I guess I thought if I didn't take sex seriously, I could some how avoid being affected by it. If sex doesn't have anything to do with intimacy and I don't feel anything... somehow I'll be stronger. But that's not true. Opening yourself up, even if it means your heart and soul are crushed. That's what makes you stronger. That's what gives you the power to move on, put the past behind you. To get out there, and get your heart stomped on all over again.

 * Richard: When did it hit you that what you were feeling was love?
 * Sarah: When did it? [pauses to think] That's a pretty serious question.
 * Richard: I'm a journalist. It's what we do.

 * Sarah: You are a son of a bitch!
 * Richard: That's not fair, you've never met my mother. She's quite lovely.

 * Richard: I never said I wouldn't print the article.
 * Sarah: You said "not to worry".
 * Richard: What I meant was "I wasn't going to publish your name".
 * Sarah: What!? In your twisted mind, you think that makes you a gentlemen?!
 * Richard: You are completely bipolar. Last night, you sidled up to me, and said I can print anything I want.
 * Sarah: Did you do this to bait me?
 * Richard: What?! You think I stay up night, thinking of ways to get you into my office?! [he thinks, and looks at her] Wait a minute, maybe I do!

The Truth About Sex [1.2]

 * Zoey: Art is life.
 * Lee: Life is art.

Tell Me No Secrets [1.3]

 * Jake: Last week we discussed the definition of sexual misconduct. This week, let's talk about responsibility. Whoever you had for sixth grade health, Ms. Franklin, Sister Peter Marie...

Zen and the Art of Manipulation [1.4]

 * Prof. Bonatelle: [about Katrina and Richard] What if they just like each other?
 * Prof. Macklin: Like each other? [pause] I can see him liking her, but her liking him?
 * Prof. Bonatelle: She liked you too - once upon a time.

Love and the Tenth Planet [1.5]

 * Owen: I think I made love for the first time in my life. I realized what was happening...the sex, the feelings... they were different from everything else I had experienced. There are things that you can't say, that you have to show...physically. I don't know how to call it. Some kind of physicall emotion. But you both have to be talking. Simultaneously, physically. And when you do you find that you're saying the same things. That is amazing.

 * Gunther: How'd you learn to edit?
 * Zoe: Strunk & White Elements of Style. At first I thought it was a book about fashion, but I found I have a passion for punctuation.
 * Gunther: Zoe.
 * Zoe: Yes, Gunther?
 * Gunther: Stop with the flirting. I'm gay.

 * Sarah: Are you even listening to me? Owen: Yeah, it's the only time I'll ever get to go to college... Sarah: Don't just repeat back what I say to you. Owen: Don't just repeat back what I say to you? Sarah: Owen, stop.
 * Owen: I will. For a hundred dollars.

The Passion of the Beaver [1.6]

 * Mr. Thorne: You know you should grab your girl and get the hell out of here. You two haven't spend any time together at all.
 * Richard: You know she's networking, it's fine.
 * Mr. Thorne: It doesn't look to be your style to be the wall flower.

 * Owen: [to Sara] You only want to help people, when they can do something for you. I know, you're such a great politician. [pause] Well you're a lousy sister! And a not to great human being.

 * Richard: Passion is pain, passion is pain.

 * Katrina: I used you!
 * Richard: For sex? Because I'm alright with that.

Risky Business [1.7]

 * Richard: Do you lack compassion for other people? Maybe. But you definitely lack compassion for yourself.

 * Jake: This week's video diary assignment: how much are you willing to risk in order to get what you want.

 * Owen: Well, I hope I'm not being un-PC or a little too OC to ask this, but did Richard Thorne spend the night last night?

Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder [1.8]

 * Professor Cole: I read your paper. It's good. Well-written, impeccably researched. Lee: I'm glad you liked it.
 * Professor Cole: Indeed I did. In fact, I've enjoyed this paper every time I've read it. Which according to my computer cheat check is three times before.

 * Zoe: Don't hire Cynthia back. Gunther: Reason: sanity. Logic: from the mouths of proofreaders.
 * Richard: Why not?
 * Zoe: Because I wrote this column.
 * Richard: You? How long did it take you to write this?
 * Zoe: About an hour. Richard: You're hired. Gunther, get her a desk. Gunther: She already has a desk. Richard: Get her a chair, get her something. I want this woman working on her next column now.
 * Zoe: Gunther, I don't want this job. Gunther: Fine. You tell Richard.

Cast

 * Matthew Modine - Professor Jake Macklin
 * Penn Badgley - Owen Gregory
 * Victoria Cartagena - Zoe Lopez
 * Tiffany Dupont - Sarah Gregory
 * Corri English - Natalie Dykstra
 * Audra McDonald - Professor Carla Bonatelle
 * Darien Sills-Evans - Aaron Evans
 * Milo Ventimiglia - Richard Thorne
 * Ernest Waddell - Lee Hemmingway
 * Aaron Yoo - James Fong
 * Scott Porter - Jason Miller
 * Jason Jurman - Peter Wortman

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Royksopp

Röyksopp is an electronic music duo from Tromsø, Norway. The members' names are Torbjørn Brundtland and Svein Berge.

Svein

 * "What first caused you to think to yourself, man, this is a great fucking job?" "When me, Han Solo and RoboCop had our first gig on top of the Great Pyramid of Khufu in front of 6 billion people. I was in the middle of my guitar solo when Wolverine shouted to me from behind his drum kit, “Man, this is a great fucking job!”

 * "I think someone should make a pair of jeans made of banana peel; that’s what I’m thinking. Instead of washing them, you just throw them away and they will decompose. Ideally, it shouldn’t be lots of banana peels – you should be able to make it in one piece so it’s one big seamless thing. They would be yellow, which is the colour of the insane"

 * "You see, it's part of the process you go through: the longer the hair and the beard, the more Beaujolais you drink. It's stage three of the seven stages of songwriting."

 * "I feel so unattractively enthusiastic about the new album".
 * On the Junior release at Pete Tong's Friday night show on BBC Radio 1 9th of January 2009.

 * "People have certain expectations of how a festival concert will be, with a vocalist, bassist, drummer and two guitarists. When the singer screams "Woaaaaaaaa", the audience must respond "YEAAAA". When we play live, we try not to be too clever and "arty". There shall be an element of party in what we do."

Torbjørn

 * "Seriously, who was supposed to add the pressure? The record buying public? I don't think so. The critics? We're not afraid of them. Our mindset, even on Melody A.M., has always been to do our own thing."
 * On making the album The Understanding.

 * "Röyksopp is more than a band. It's also a transport system."
 * On being confronted with Röyksopp's ability to take people to a state of mind.

 * "Where would your ideal place be to listen to one of your own songs?". "I think, in a blimp. Over Antarctica".

 * "I get angry when I have to read...Like if you put a DVD into a DVD player, and you actually have to read, that thingy, where it has the copyright control. And if that's on for like half a minute and there's no button that you can press that gets you through it. That fills me with double rage."

 * "I had this bow and arrow that my uncle had given me, and I found a knife and sharpened the arrows. It was a deadly weapon. And I killed birds, I killed a lot of polar bears. I went on a killing spree for days, killing every animal I could see in Northern Norway."
 * Making a sick joke in a BBC interview. This actually made PETA criticize him in public, unaware that polar bears does not habit in continental Norway.

 * "The most annoying [pop star]? Well, that's gotta be 50 Cent. Why? I mean, because of the story that goes with him. This story, the story that sold him to a lot of newspapers. I just imagine a reader who's like 50 years old and who's really not into hip-hop... "But this guy, he's been shot 7 times then he must be good", and that story is just so crap so I instantly had a dislike of the whole package."

 * "When you do interviews it's not like you're a politician that people are going to say "Ahh, he didn't really answer the question". If you're an artist it's good to just not answer the question sometimes."

 * "What's next for you? We are going to start a farm where we trying to make nothing grow. that's really difficult. That's gonna be a heavy work.

Together

 * On asked by KCRW about things that influence their creative process:
 * Torbjørn: To be very dull, I would have to say scenery and nature and the world itself. Growing up in Tromsø, as we did, we had a lot of space and a lot of scenery. And without being too New Age about the whole thing, I’m just noting that that is in us, and definitely colouring whatever we do. Svein: I think people and humour also has to be thrown into the bowl. Torbjørn: Well, not so much humour.

 * On their album The Understanding:
 * Svein: Yes, there is meaning, but we believe there's room for your own interpretation. Listen to the album and see if you can come up with your own. Torbjørn: It's like a classical painting like the Mona Lisa. When you tell people what they should look for, they only look at that thing.

 * On being asked about their favourite album in Röyksopp's discography:
 * Torbjørn: That would be like comparing my children, not that I have any. Svein: It's like trying to compare two testicles. One is not better than the other. Both are vital to the Röyksopp anatomy.

 * "Tromsø is a city with crime and dope, and with the nature right beside. You can sit by the sea, eat ecstasy, surf on the internet and eat seagull eggs. We have a half-naive love relation to the midnight sun and the nature in Northern Norway. Old people aren't the only ones who can claim that."

Said about Röyksopp

 * "Röyksopp's album Melody A.M. is one of the best records ever made"
 * Chris Martin of Coldplay to NRK.

 * "This is the one that puts them firmly and officially up there in the top tier of the dance-music crossover-album crowd, up with the Daft Punks and, umm, Basement Jaxxes. Really: Good for them."
 * Review of the album The Understanding in Pitchfork.

 * "This is genius – it is no wonder they are laughing."
 * Review of the album Junior in The Sun

 * "Apparently the original title of this striking debut was For Kids and Elderly People, and you can hear why: cornerstone hit Eple is likely to beguile any age."
 * The Guardian chose Melody A.M. amongst the 1000 albums you must hear before you die.

 * “I always listen to new music. I get new CDs every week from England and America. I prefer listening to new things rather than old, and so at the moment I’m really enjoying listening to the band Röyksopp.”
 * Sir Elton John is a Röyksopp fan.

 * "There's a new Röyksopp record out which is called Senior which I'm really looking forward to hearing."
 * Sir Elton John says he's looking forward for Röyksopp's Senior album.

So Easy
Yeah it's me I wanna give you some good frequencies 170, 2.6, 2245... Yeah 3032, 400 Four hundred? Yeah. I'm coming over. Do that. Hehe. I'll be there in two seconds.
 * Hello?

Sparks
It's those tiny little sparks Daily life that makes me Forget my wounded heart
 * No matter gray or grim

It doesn't matter when It may rain or it may shine Blurry memories of us Come back from time to time

No matter gray or grim It's those tiny little sparks Daily life that makes me Forget my wounded heart

It doesn't matter when It may rain or it may shine Blurry memories of us Come back from time to time

No matter gray or grim It's those tiny little sparks Daily life that makes me Forget my sulky heart

It doesn't matter when It may rain or it may shine But you will always be here Stored inside my mind

Can I give you all my love Suck some air Tell me what I'm dreaming of Oh, whoa, oh...

Maybe within a thousand years You'll be here Maybe within a thousand tears Oh, whoa, oh...

Can I be so alone? Can I be so alone?

Oh, whoa.. La la la la...

Only This Moment
Holds us together Close to perfection Nothing else out there No one to guide us Lost in our senses Deep down inside I know our love will die
 * Only this moment

Only this moment Holds us together Lost in confusion Feelings are out there Scared of devotion Doubting intentions Deep down inside I know our love will die

Stay or forever go Play or you’ll never know What heaven decided You can't deny it’s All you’ve been waiting for

Stay or forever go Play or you’ll never know Your spirit’s divided You will decide if I’m All you’ve been waiting for

Clouds in my head have been parted with grace By the voice of an angel revealing her face And her words they make sense and I do understand Falling in love isn’t part of a plan

Forces within me mix reason with lust, but I’ll try to accept it and not make it worse 'Cause I know I might lose it by taking the chance, (But) love without pain isn’t really romance

Only this moment Holds us together Close to perfection Nothing else out there Always beside her Trusting my senses Deep down inside I know love will survive

Only this moment Holds us together Close to perfection Nothing else out there Always beside her Trusting my senses Deep down inside I know love will survive

49 Percent
One percent short of half And less than half Ain't really much of nothing
 * Forty-nine percent

Forty-nine percent One percent short of half And less than half Ain't really much of nothing

I won't try to dent your night Or stop your flight I've known our plight You know I'm right I know about your little fling How you hide your ring You senseless thing I'll cut this string The heat has simmered for a while It's not my style So versatile and with a smile At anytime, I could explode When you kissed your toad You killed your princely episode

Forty-nine percent One percent short of half And less than half Ain't really much of nothing

Forty-nine percent One percent short of half And less than half Ain't really much of nothing

Bit off more than one could bite And the taste is slight It leaves this dullish appetite About time I've finally seen the light And said goodnight For the sling is tight We'll lose this fight In a corner painted white As you fly your kite I shun the sight, i've seen the light And now i've got to say goodnight You know I'm right

Forty-nine percent One percent short of half And less than half Ain't really much of nothing

Forty-nine percent One percent short of half And less than half Ain't really much of nothing

I won't try to stop you flight Or chage your night or nothing Less than half Why won't you try To make this damage better

Math and imagery Equates cacophony Multiplies muteness A sum better disturbed For silence subtracts And shadows divide light Less than half is slight

Math and imagery Equates cacophony Multiplies muteness A sum better disturbed For silence subtracts And shadows divide light Less than half is slight

The heat has simmered for a while The heat has simmered for a while The heat has simmered for a while The heat has simmered for a while The heat has simmered for a while

Forty-nine percent One percent short of half And less than half Ain't really much of nothing

Forty-nine percent One percent short of half And less than half Ain't really much of nothing

I won't try to stop you flight Or chage your night or nothing Less than half Why won't you try To make this damage better

Forty-nine percent One percent short of half And less than half Ain't really much of nothing

Oh forty-nine percent One percent short of half And less than half Ain't really much of nothing, yeah

The heat has simmered for a while The heat has simmered for a while The heat has simmered for a while

What Else Is There?
But you couldn`t see me Too many lights out, but nowhere near here
 * It was me on that road

It was me on that road Still you couldn`t see me And then flashlights and explosions

Roads end getting nearer We cover distance, but not together

I am the storm and I am the wonder And the flashlights, nightmares And sudden explosions

I don't know what more to ask for I was given just one wish

It`s about you and the sun A morning run The story of my maker What I have and what I ache for

I`ve got a golden ear I cut and I spear But what else is there?

Roads end getting nearer We cover distance, still not together

If I am the storm, if I am the wonder Will I have flashlights, nightmares And sudden explosion?

There's no room where I can go and You`ve got secrets too

I don`t know what more to ask for I was given just one wish (Why)

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François Mitterrand

François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (October 26, 1916 – January 8, 1996) was a French politician. He was elected President of France in May 1981, re-elected in 1988 and held office until 1995.

Quotes

 * There exists in our country a solid continuity of Bonapartism, where the vocation for grandeur of France, the monarchist tradition, and the passion for national unity, the Jacobin tradition get together.
 * Le Coup d'État permanent (1964) Part II, ch. 1

 * To every reversal of people’s soveregnity, to every disappearance of the Republic corresponds a frank or disguised restitution in force of the regal justice. ‘’Tell me, according to what you judge and I’ll tell you who you are.” […] No axiom in politics is more certain than this.
 * Le Coup d'État permanent (1964) Part III

 * What has begun in this evening will not stay for a long time, and because you represent the forces of the world of labour, you, forces of the youth, your victory is inevitable.
 * Château-Chinon (1974)

 * Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.
 * L’Abeille et l’architecte [The Bee and the Architect] (1980) Chapter 6

 * For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine.
 * L’Abeille et l’architecte [The Bee and the Architect] (1980)

 * The man of the past.
 * Debate with Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, characterising the latter (May 1981)

 * One must defeat their prejudices. What I demand you here is almost impossible, for we have to defeat our history. And yet, if we do not defeat it, one must know a rule will impose itself, ladies and gentlemen: nationalism is war! War is not only our past, it may be our future; and you members of parliament are henceforth the guardians of our peace, of our security, and of this future.
 * Lecture held at European Parliament (17 January 1995)

 * I believe in the forces of the spirit, and I won't leave you.
 * Last televised address to the French people, 31st of december 1994

Attributed

 * "In such countries, genocide is not too important…"
 * Comments about Rwanda attributed to President Mitterrand by Philip Gourevitch in "Reversing the Reversals of War," The New Yorker, 26 April 1999.

Quotes about

 * It's been quite a journey this decade, and we held together through some stormy seas. And at the end, together, we are reaching our destination. The fact is, from Grenada to the Washington and Moscow summits, from the recession of '81 to '82, to the expansion that began in late '82 and continues to this day, we've made a difference. The way I see it, there were two great triumphs, two things that I'm proudest of. One is the economic recovery, in which the people of America created—and filled—19 million new jobs. The other is the recovery of our morale. America is respected again in the world and looked to for leadership. Something that happened to me a few years ago reflects some of this. It was back in 1981, and I was attending my first big economic summit, which was held that year in Canada. The meeting place rotates among the member countries. The opening meeting was a formal dinner of the heads of goverment of the seven industrialized nations. Now, I sat there like the new kid in school and listened, and it was all Francois this and Helmut that. They dropped titles and spoke to one another on a first-name basis. Well, at one point I sort of leaned in and said, "My name's Ron." Well, in that same year, we began the actions we felt would ignite an economic comeback—cut taxes and regulation, started to cut spending. And soon the recovery began. Two years later, another economic summit with pretty much the same cast. At the big opening meeting we all got together, and all of a sudden, just for a moment, I saw that everyone was just sitting there looking at me. And then one of them broke the silence. "Tell us about the American miracle," he said.
 * Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address, 11 January 1989

 * Power corrupts, and, in many cases, absolute power makes you really horny. Clinton, Chirac, Mao, Mitterrand.
 * Donald Sutherland, "Letters from the Rose Garden" email to Gary Ross, 2011, included in the special features of The Hunger Games (2012)

 * Of course, peace might have come to Europe without the Union. Maybe. We will never know. But it would never have been of the same quality. A lasting peace, not a frosty cease-fire. To me, what makes it so special, is reconciliation. In politics as in life, reconciliation is the most difficult thing. It goes beyond forgiving and forgetting, or simply turning the page. To think of what France and Germany had gone through …, and then take this step … Signing a Treaty of Friendship … Each time I hear these words – Freundschaft, Amitié –, I am moved. They are private words, not for treaties between nations. But the will to not let history repeat itself, to do something radically new, was so strong that new words had to be found. For people Europe was a promise, Europe equalled hope. When Konrad Adenauer came to Paris to conclude the Coal and Steel Treaty, in 1951, one evening he found a gift waiting at his hotel. It was a war medal, une Croix de Guerre, that had belonged to a French soldier. His daughter, a young student, had left it with a little note for the Chancellor, as a gesture of reconciliation and hope. I can see many other stirring images before me. Leaders of six States assembled to open a new future, in Rome, città eterna … Willy Brandt kneeling down in Warsaw. The dockers of Gdansk, at the gates of their shipyard. Mitterrand and Kohl hand in hand. Two million people linking Tallinn to Riga to Vilnius in a human chain, in 1989. These moments healed Europe.
 * Herman Van Rompuy, Nobel Peace Prize Lecture of the European Union, 10 December 2012

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