David Berlinski Quote

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.


The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World (ed. Houghton Mifflin, 2000)


The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places...

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places...

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places...

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places...