“The machine trans­lates words of a text into patent draw­ings. Seven mil­lion patents — linked by over 22 mil­lion ref­er­ences — form the vocab­u­lary. By using ref­er­ences to ear­lier patents, it is pos­si­ble to find paths between arbi­trary patents. They form a kind of subtext.”

“If the uni­ver­sity teaches us pri­mar­ily how to be in debt, how to waste our labor power, how to fall prey to petty anx­i­eties, it thereby teaches us how to be con­sumers. Edu­ca­tion is a com­mod­ity like every­thing else that we want with­out car­ing for. It is a thing, and it makes its pur­chasers into things. One’s future posi­tion in the sys­tem, one’s rela­tion to oth­ers, is pur­chased first with money and then with the demon­stra­tion of obedience.”

“Orches­tra pro­vides an instru­men­ta­tion API for Ruby.”