The Agony and the Ecstasy
Novel by Irving StoneWikipedia
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Oct 7, 2026
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
When I went to graduate school at UC Berkeley in the mid-1970s, I started staying up late, often all night, inventing new worlds inside the machines, solving problems, writing the code that argued so strongly to be written.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
In The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone's biographical novel of Michelangelo, Stone described vividly how Michelangelo released the statues from the stone, breaking the marble spell, carving from the images in his mind.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
In my most ecstatic moments, the software in the computer emerged in the same way.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Once I had imagined it in my mind, I felt that it was already there in the machine, waiting to be released.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
When I went to graduate school at UC Berkeley in the mid-1970s, I started staying up late, often all night, inventing new worlds inside the machines, solving problems, writing the code that argued so strongly to be written.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
In The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone's biographical novel of Michelangelo, Stone described vividly how Michelangelo released the statues from the stone, breaking the marble spell, carving from the images in his mind.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
In my most ecstatic moments, the software in the computer emerged in the same way.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Once I had imagined it in my mind, I felt that it was already there in the machine, waiting to be released.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
When I went to graduate school at UC Berkeley in the mid-1970s, I started staying up late, often all night, inventing new worlds inside the machines, solving problems, writing the code that argued so strongly to be written.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
In The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone's biographical novel of Michelangelo, Stone described vividly how Michelangelo released the statues from the stone, breaking the marble spell, carving from the images in his mind.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
In my most ecstatic moments, the software in the computer emerged in the same way.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Once I had imagined it in my mind, I felt that it was already there in the machine, waiting to be released.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
When I went to graduate school at UC Berkeley in the mid-nineteen seventies, I started staying up late, often all night, inventing new worlds inside the machines, solving problems, writing the code that argued so strongly to be written.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
In The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone's biographical novel of Michelangelo, Stone described vividly how Michelangelo released the statues from the stone, breaking the marble spell, carving from the images in his mind.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
In my most ecstatic moments, the software in the computer emerged in the same way.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Once I had imagined it in my mind, I felt that it was already there in the machine, waiting to be released.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
When I went to graduate school at UC Berkeley in the mid-1970s, I started staying up late, often all night, inventing new worlds inside the machines, solving problems, writing the code that argued so strongly to be written.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
In The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone's biographical novel of Michelangelo, Stone described vividly how Michelangelo released the statues from the stone, breaking the marble spell, carving from the images in his mind.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
In my most ecstatic moments, the software in the computer emerged in the same way.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Once I had imagined it in my mind, I felt that it was already there in the machine, waiting to be released.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
When I went to graduate school at UC Berkeley in the mid-1970s, I started staying up late, often all night, inventing new worlds inside the machines, solving problems, writing the code that argued so strongly to be written.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
In The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone's biographical novel of Michelangelo, Stone described vividly how Michelangelo released the statues from the stone, breaking the marble's spell, carving from the images in his mind.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
In my most ecstatic moments, the software in the computer emerged in the same way.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Once I had imagined it in my mind, I felt that it was already there in the machine, waiting to be released.
Ally FallonHOST
I don't know that those days actually ever existed.
Ally FallonHOST
But I'm in the middle of reading The Agony and the Ecstasy, which is the story of Michelangelo and how he became to be the amazing artist that he is.
Ally FallonHOST
And I do feel that there are big differences between being an artist now and present day and being an artist hundreds of years ago.
Ally FallonHOST
So there are differences there, and yet this common theme remains true.