London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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Category Archives: 0059 – Quote Unquote
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The civility which money will purchase is rarely extended to those who have none.
~ Charles Dickens
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“Moore’s Law for everything” should be the rallying cry of a generation whose members can’t afford what they want. It sounds utopian, but it’s something technology can deliver (and in some cases already has).
~ Sam Altman
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You can’t rearrange freshly fallen snow, you can’t fix snow so it looks untouched. You can rework earth, and sand and even grass if you try hard enough. Water takes care of itself, because it swallows everything and flows back together once it’s done swallowing. And air is always in place because you can’t see it. Everything but snow would have kept quiet.
~ Herta Müller
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Her experience seems to typify her carnally confused generation. Record numbers of young people are identifying as queer; traditional dictates around monogamy and abstinence need no longer hold as much sway; porn and dating apps offer a buffet of on-demand eroticism. Yet young people are, statistically, having less sex than their elders were at their age. Desiring and doing have never been so separate.
~ Spencer Kornhaber via The Atlantic
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When one has once accepted and absorbed evil, it no longer demands to be believed.
~ Franz Kafka
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The compulsive overachievement of today’s elite college students – the sense that they need to keep running as fast as they can – is not the only thing that keeps them from forming the deeper relationships that might relieve their anguish. Something more insidious is operating, too: a resistance to vulnerability, a fear of looking like the only one who isn’t capable of handling the pressure.
~ William Deresiewicz
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A politician’s words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
~ George Will
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To be sure, knowledge work does often require high levels of education and skill, but in recent years we’ve increasingly drowned the application of such talents in a deluge of distraction. We can blame this, in part, on the rise of low-friction digital communication tools like e-mail and chat. Office collaboration now takes place largely through a frenzy of back-and-forth, ad-hoc messaging, punctuated by meetings.The satisfactions of skilled labor are unavoidably diluted when you can only dedicate partial attention to your efforts.
~ Cal Newport via The New Yorker
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The stories gets passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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