140 quotes found
“I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.”
“My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, 'Mom, Dad, I really want to luge.' And your parents are like: 'O.K., I'll quit my job. We'll m...”
“Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating it can only be an expression of our humanity. ”
“Technology favors horrible people.”
“It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in Calif...”
“Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.”
“When you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and it actually saves the day - you can't prejudge technologies now becau...”
“Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.”
“Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.”
“If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.”
“A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.”
“When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's ...”
“Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.”
“I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.”
“Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.”
“The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.”
“The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.”
“When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed w...”
“And his computer's spell-check always forces him to capitalize the word "Internet". Come on; World War Two earned it's capitalization. The Internet just sucks human beings away from reality.”
“I hate math. It's hard, it's stupid, and it's nature's way of separating spinsters from women who end up breeding.”