#or

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#cheerful #consistently #express #future #human

When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don't know what you're going to see. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#house #know #morning #out #see

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra. ↗

— H. Beam Piper

#education #educational-system #faces #education

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#advertising agency #agency #chess #elaborate #find

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#always #artist #because #could #creative

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn't have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#back #efficiently #express #few #generations

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#feel #flee #goes #jump #object

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#boredom #die #foot #man #set

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#benevolence #craving #gift #himself #implies

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#apathetic #continue #homelessness #ignore #maddening