4324 Bryn Quotes & Sayings

The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism. — Jaron Lanier

I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work. — Walter Hill

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance. — Herman Melville

The establishment of religious freedom was no less momentous an achievement than the clearing of the great forest or the winning of independence, for the twin doctrines of separation of church and state and liberty of individual conscience are the marrow of our democracy, if not indeed America's most magnificent contribution to the freeing of Western man. — Clinton Rossiter

It's a rental, I said, realizing when I said it that our house was the only rental on the block. Maybe something unseemly had happened there: adultery, Judaism, modern dance. — Emma Straub