After all and no matter how much we protest, I imagine that there will be other thirty years of Convergència in Catalunya, thirty more of the PSOE in Andalusia and Fraga who, almost like the Cid, will continue governing in Galicia after they have him embalsamado.(la decadencia del ingenio)

as long as efficiency is the driving force i don't think there will be anything build but trivial machines. efficiency, as i understand it, is too much influenced by taylorism and this notion for sure doesn't allow unpredictably behaviour. ¿ for good or bad? don't know.

All machines we construct and buy are, hopefully, trivial machines. A toaster should toast, a washing machine wash, a motorcar should predictably respond to its driver's operations. In fact, all our efforts go into one direction, to create trivial machines or, if we encounter non-trivial machines, to convert them into trivial machines. The discovery of agriculture is the discovery that some aspects of Nature can be trivialized: If I till today, I shall have bread tomorrow. (hvf, perception of the future and the future of perception)

instead of using language as a tool with which to express thoughts and experience, we accept language as a tool that determines our thoughts and experience. (hvf)

it's nice to get into a plane still replete with nice food. ¡thanks for dinner!