David Shields
David Shields
David Shieldsis an American author of fiction and nonfiction...
people humanity planets
You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.
real events culture
Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any,
book should endure
A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.
everything-happens-for-a-reason stories want
Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.
art reality economic-models
Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connections, and sharing are. Value has shifted away from a copy toward the many ways to recall, annotate, personalize, edit, authenticate, display, mark, transfer, and engage a work. Art is a conversation, not a patent office. The citation of sources belongs to the realms of journalism and scholarship, not art. Reality can’t be copyrighted.
asking game people ranked rankings tired
We are really tired of people asking us about our rankings and we have to say we're not ranked because we do not have a full-time day program. We're not doing this just for the rankings, but unfortunately, this is the way the game is played.
affairs agencies challenges chinese expecting foreign large looking lots marketing national return run security support tremendous visitors volume
We're not expecting a large volume of Chinese visitors to (suddenly) run to Jamaica. So we're looking at the marketing in a structured, managed way. We know we need to look at the return on the investment. There are lots of challenges but there has been tremendous support from other agencies of government, from the foreign affairs and national security ministries. We have to be patient.
home rush seems specific
When I went back home over the summer, it seems like everyone is in a rush to be in a specific place. Boise's just so much more relaxed.