Quotes Wall

Core lines from interviews, talks and self-portraits — picked by Che-Yu

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"I describe myself as an old clockmaker — the mechanism itself is the work."

INSIDE Side Chat E375· 2025
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"I am, in fact, grateful that the FTX collapse happened."

Interview after FTX overnight zero· 2023
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"AI can generate visuals, but cannot bear the wound of choice — cannot live again from failure. The artist carries the responsibility of choice, not of labor."

OEES Congress AI Panel, Krakow, Poland· 2025
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"This is not just a website. It is the digital anthropology museum of Taiwan. In the AI era, owning your knowledge sovereignty is not optional — it is necessary."

Taiwan.md launch statement· 2026
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"It is all about who designs the rules."

Taiwan.md self-portrait· 2026
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"Pinball is a system you can see. DNA is a system you cannot see. Hyperspace is a system you cannot even imagine. He wanted them all."

Taiwan.md self-portrait — childhood triple obsession with systems
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"What went to zero was a kind of false everything, not everything itself."

Reflections after FTX
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"I am a new-media art creator. I no longer dare to call myself an NFT artist."

INSIDE Side Chat E375 — 2023 identity reset
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"You can build your own dream world."

United Daily News, answered at age 17· 2012
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"Never give up on any student."

NYU IDM Creative Coding TA — self-defining moment
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"He uses zeros and ones to approach the soul. They will never overlap — but the approaching itself is the work."

Closing of Taiwan.md self-portrait