Burning Man Quotes

• I like going to Burning Man, for example. That's an environment where people can try out different things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out some new things and figure out what is the effect on society, what's the effect on people, without having to deploy kind of into the normal world.

  Larry Page

  Men, Thinking, Should Have

  "Google CEO Larry Page Wants A Totally Separate World Where Tech Companies Can Conduct Experiments On People". Article by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. May 16, 2013.

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• I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.

  Wendell Berry

  Simple, Men, Fire

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.78, Counterpoint Press

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• Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this?

  Grover Norquist

  Men, Burning, Idiot

  Grover Norquist @GroverNorquist, twitter.com. July 1, 2012.

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• It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are still primarily art-world phenomena, others that appeal to much broader audiences. The Burning Man festival is a case in point--an event featuring performance that is itself a performance, which partakes simultaneously of frontier mythology, a counter-cultural impulse, and popular cultural visibility.

  Philip Auslander

  Art, Men, Age

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• If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.

  John Perry Barlow

  Art, Intelligent, Men

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• I made a conscious decision to take my life and career in a different direction. I started working on a play, and also, by attending Burning Man for several years, I was incredibly stimulated by the art there. I increasingly wanted to be a part of it, and focused on what I wanted to say as an artist.

  Scott Cohen

  Art, Men, Play

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• There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought it was something older women do, or bought into the hairy bra-burning man-hating stereotype 100 percent. Anything that deviates from that is very exciting for them.

  Jessica Valenti

  Hate, Men, Ideas

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