Storytellers all, we humans might run out of time even as we triumph over the problem of running out of space. But we will never run out of stories.
Interpretation
Humans will always create and share stories, regardless of the constraints of time and space.
In this quote, Tom Junod expresses the enduring nature of storytelling, suggesting that even as we face the limitations of time and the physical vastness of space, our capacity for creating and sharing stories remains limitless. Stories are fundamental to the human experience, serving as a means of connection and understanding that transcends our temporal and spatial boundaries.
In practice
During a writing workshop, to inspire participants about the importance of storytelling.
It is insufficient to say that my experience as a bully haunts me. Rather, my experience as a bully has been fundamental to the creation of my conscience, because it is what prevents me from making the basic human claim that I am a good person.
By turning our culture over to the spectacle of child stars and their growing pains, we simply wind up taking their childishness seriously and ensuring that they don't grow up at all. And neither do we.
That's the first thing you learn when you busk in the New York City subways: you immediately join the ranks of the marginalized, the unhinged prophets, the Christian shouters, the Hare Krishnas, the Jehovah's witnesses, the father-and-daughter kitaro team, the violinists playing for their sickly wives.
Cooking is, to me, the perfect fusion of generosity and selfishness, indeed the resolution of generosity and selfishness, the answer to my torn nature.
I cook so that there is no absence. I cook so that I am always there, even when I'm gone, even when I die, and my cooking translates in my daughter's memory as, simply, this: time.
The premise and promise of Big Data is that there are no stories, only patterns; that the human preference for story is aligned with the human tendency for error; and that only through dislocations in scale - the scale of sample size and of time - will truth emerge.
What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.
I love hanging and drawing and quartering_x000D_ Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.
I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.
A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.
Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
Let my children have music! Let them hear live music.
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