48 quotes found
“Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As...”
“I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think 'this was a really goofy, unadmirable stupid time.”
“Give as much as importance to your goal as you give it to your first girlfriend, with that much importance your girlfriend might still leave you but your goal will definitely come to you.”
“More pathetic than the digital age is the people who love it. They buy right into the "newer is always better" ideology and they can't seem to grasp that the fun of VHS tapes, super 8 film, darkroo...”
“We have reached the end of one era, and now we don't know what is all around us. Because we're already in a new era, and it is very different from the old one. Science and the world of technology a...”
“A woman is not only a man.”
“Wherever you go in the next catastrophBe it sickroom, or prison, or cemetryDo not fear that your stay will besolitryCountless souls share your fate,youll have company!”
“I love humanity, surprisingly, as I observe 21st century with hawk eyed vision, I realize the more I love humanity the less I love Human as an individual.”
“So many had burned opportunities in the name of postponement, believing that another opportunity will arise. They fail to seize the spur of the moment, without thinking that maybe, that could be th...”
“I am made of a thousand ghosts. Only you can shoot me down.”
“Perhaps death is just a big lie.”
“What goes up, must come down." Well, Issac Newton's law doesn't apply to the internet. That's what people don't realize. When you put something up, as long as there is an internet there will be tha...”
“I want to be a good man, a good writer.""Be one or the other, Ernest, not both.”
“No man should be asked to live with so much sadness, and with so little promise of relief.”
“Ernest chose to go, she finally thinks, watching the fire turn the papers black. He loved her but he could not live anymore.”
“She no longer lived in a world of speculation or recall and would take nothing on faith when the facts were but a few clicks away. It drove me nuts. I was sick to death of having as my dinner compa...”
“I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going t...”
“You know its the 21st Century when someone TEXTS you from the washroom to ask you to bring them a roll of toilet paper.”
“I'll never buy a cell phone, I'd rather die than have a cell phones. Cell phones are the 21st century's ball and chain.”
“…Maybe I’ll be watching super-8 home videos,” Alecto told her, smiling bleakly. “I love my super-8 camera, it’s an Eastman Kodak one… Kodak stopped manufacturing them, the world went digital and no...”
