#ai

I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways. ↗

— Gary Larson

#dose #doubting #fear #good #helps

The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike. ↗

— Gary Larson

#black #black hole #calendar #cartoon #daily

You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that. ↗

— Gary Larson

#always #brain #comes #give #i

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course. ↗

— Steig Larsson

#crime #entertainment #exist #forms #i

In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family. ↗

— John Lasseter

#economic #economic times #entertainment #family #inexpensive

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. ↗

— Sloan Wilson

#almost #any #depends #does #drive

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#apparatus #belief #effect #elicit #maintain

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#banality #endless #erected #order #overcome

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#claim #conservatives #defend #distorted #modern

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#cannot #conduct #confirm #daily #embedded