“The value of an opinion is only measured by its user. It's ironic that the value of a fact is only measured by its observer.”
“Value has a value only if its value is valued.”
“Gardens were meant to be seen, smelled, walked through, grubbed in. A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.”
“I'm thinking of making it a project for my PhD. You know, writing about value judgments people place on things. One sexual encounter is just that: it's a ten minute thing. And virginity? It's just a hymen, an antiquated measure of a woman's value,”
“In advocating any measure we must consider not only its justice but its practicability.”
“Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.”