Quote Archive for: Sep 14, 2001 to Jul 23, 2001
"Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now."
"Nothing about the international picture. Totally self-obsessed. Childlike. Bedtime stories. I'm an adult."
"The worst-case scenario of crossing the road, after all, is that you'll be hit by a truck and killed. Yet we all do cross roads every day, and could hardly function if we did not. To live by the worst-case scenario is to grant the terrorists their victory without a shot having been fired."
"You know, the Internet is a lot like prayer: Millions of people casting out their feelings, hopes, and fears?hoping that someone will listen, that someone will answer."
"White pages for residential phones are like AM radio: an old system that's still around but long since past its popularity peak. There is no directory service for cell phones, and none are seriously contemplated. Maybe this is because of the system's chaotic multicompany origins, but the more significant matter is the absence of a demand for a master directory. Telephony is more personal yet more social than ever."
"Jobs like that, it's the same thing every day, there's no such thing as accomplishment."
"If you begin by giving yourself to those you love, you end by hating those you've given yourself to."
- George Bernard Shaw