637 quotes found
“Now Imsober and Irealize, Ididnt drink toescape the world,I drank to escapemyself”
“Frankly, I even worried about the fact that I was so worried. Worrying about the strength of my faithhow it stood up to others'didnt seem to be a healthy sign. I mean, didn't worrying about faith d...”
“There is an empty space next to you in the backseat of the station wagon. Make it the shape of everything you need. Now say hello.”
“What do you want?I want to stop living in fear. I want to stop coming up with excuses about why I'm not interested in dating. I want my family to know me. I want to get to learn more about Lisa. I ...”
“Death and life were just adjacent verandas.”
“Mourn for the living, the dead have got their camphor gardens.”
“Arnold Sommerfeld generalized Bohr's model to include elliptical orbits in three dimensions. He treated the problem relativistically (using Einstein's formula for the increase of mass with velocity...”
“Crushes are called crushes because they crush The soul.”
“It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a mess. It just isn't possible, as far as the mind-set of the ...”
“If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.”
“One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool.”
“Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to...”
“Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of th...”
“Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more disk space and processing powe...”
“Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets, but every private text message, email, and voicemail is li...”
“Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers...”
“People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.”
“When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought ...”
“Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eve...”
“The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendo...”
