Getup Change Quotes & Sayings

Civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span. The trend might be coming from the acceleration of technology, the short-horizon perspective of market-driven economics, the next-election perspective of democracies, or the distractions of personal multitasking. All are on the increase. Some sort of balancing corrective to the short-sightedness is needed - some mechanism or myth that encourages the long view and the taking of long-term responsibility, where "the long term" is measured at least in centuries. — Stewart Brand

I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations. — Daniil Kharms

There is the seed of all sins
of the vilest and worst of sins
in the best of men. — Thomas Brooks

I started to reply; she hushed me with a wave of her ring-heavy right hand. — Stephen King

All scriptures contain contradictions and the Qur'an is no exception. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

[Ransom] preferred to work as a volunteer rather than in admitted slavery: and he liked his cooking a good deal more than that of his companions. — C.S. Lewis