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I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion, which is systematic. It's a lot about all these kind of clothes that can be easily combined with each other, and it's less and less, I think, about making a fashion statement.
Raf Simons
Fashion
Men
Clothes
Think
Other
Statement
Easily
Systematic
Kind
See
About
Combined
Making
Lot
Behaviour
Which
Less
Each
Fashion Statement
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.
Raoul Vaneigem
Work
Complete
Consume
Consuming
Survive
To Survive
Cycle
Hellish
The key is within each of us. No instructions come with it.
Raoul Vaneigem
Key
Come
Instructions
Within
Us
Each
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
Raoul Vaneigem
Dreams
Free
Controlling
Our
Our Dreams
Only
Subjectivity
Surrendering
Escape
Commonplace
Manipulating
Play
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Raoul Vaneigem
Work
Enemy
Society
Industrial
Always
Been
Which
Confuses
Create
Producing
Productivity
Necessity
Desire
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
Raoul Vaneigem
Knowledge
Value
Few
Our
Everything
Minds
Has-Been
Only
Taken
Advantage
Since
Said
Been
Banal
Essentially
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
Raoul Vaneigem
Myself
Losing
Pleasure
Find
Exist
Eruption
Forgetting
Realize
Lived
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
Raoul Vaneigem
Life
Survival
Poverty
Become
Our
Way
Has-Been
More
Mere
Terms
Reduced
Been
Profound
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
Raoul Vaneigem
Rich
Nowadays
Possess
Objects
Merely
Poor
Means
Large
Large Number
Number
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
Raoul Vaneigem
Work
Love
People
Drinking
Singing
Holding
Dancing
Weapons
Slowly
Inventing
Poetry
Arguing
Picking
New
Also
Making
Up
Same
Who
Streets
Slaughterhouses
Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.
Raoul Vaneigem
Nature
Our
Remake
Rediscover
Task
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
Raoul Vaneigem
World
Starvation
Entails
Boredom
Risk
Shall
Die
Dying
Wants
Which
Who
Guarantee
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
Raoul Vaneigem
Freedom
Equality
Citizen
King
Before
Fraternity
Kingdom
Through
Consumption
Democratic
Monarchy
It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives.
Raoul Vaneigem
Invent
Own
Our
Entirely
Up
Us
Lives
The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
Rene Magritte
Mediocrity
Atom
Atom Bomb
Bomb
Present
Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.
Rene Magritte
World
Thought
Only
Sees
Knows
Becomes
Hears
Offers
Being
Resemble
Resembles
When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.
Robert Cailliau
Great
Humanity
Problems
Will
Solving
Faces
Data
Online
Many
Prerequisite
Humankind
Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.
Robert Cailliau
Characters
See
Perceive
Colors
Because
Green
What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links, like we know today - you see some blue underlined word and you click on it and it takes you somewhere else. That's the simplest definition of hypertext.
Robert Cailliau
Today
You
Word
Giving
Somewhere
Else
Definition
See
Some
More
Somewhere Else
Computer
Simplest
Takes
Like
Know
Click
Method
Text
Links
Blue
Depth
Explore
Help
Letting
If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace.
Robert Cailliau
You
Facebook
Impossible
Will
Sign
Destroyed
Trace
Always
Up
Account
Want
Keep
I'm not on Twitter, nor Facebook, or LinkedIn, or any of these systems, because they suck in your soul and they will not let you go. Try to get out of any of them, and you will see. They are just like some religions where apostasy is punished by death.
Robert Cailliau
Death
You
Soul
Facebook
Try
Will
Twitter
Punished
Out
Systems
Religions
See
Some
Like
Because
Go
Nor
LinkedIn
Get
Any
Just
Where
Them
Your
Suck
There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. But the alternative is that there's a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe.
Robert Cailliau
Time
Calm
Community
Down
Chaos
Meltdown
System
Would
Would-Be
Total
Net
Civilized
Catastrophe
Alternative
Calm Down
Becomes
May
Middle
Now
The forced influence of advertising has given us completely useless TV. You don't want that on the Net. But most on-line information providers need to attract advertising - which slows download times and clutters the screen with windows.
Robert Cailliau
You
On-Line
TV
Windows
Net
Given
Most
Attract
Advertising
Forced
Providers
Times
Screen
Influence
Want
Information
Which
Us
Useless
Download
Need
To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.
Robert Cailliau
Me
Google
Despite
Still
Surprise
Sites
Biggest
Biggest Surprise
Explosion
Functions
Number
My physique? It is a gift from God.
Romelu Lukaku
God
Gift
Physique
If you weren't with me when I had nothing, then you can't really understand me.
Romelu Lukaku
Me
You
Nothing
Had
Understand
Were
Then
Really
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