Sneakernet Quotes & Sayings

The truth of the world is exhausting. — Don DeLillo

Guess what? Science like gravity doesn't care what the sex of the discoverers is ... — Steve Merrick

Rules only have meaning as long as you're abiding by them. As soon as you start ignoring them, it turns out that you don't owe anyone anything, you're not obligated to make up all kinds of silly stories about things you actually know nothing about. Then it turns out that you can get by just fine without all those made-up stories, and there aren't any rules - what they're showing you doesn't exist anymore, so there's nothing to say. It's all a sham, they're just trying to use you... and it's all perfectly legal, of course. It's like school all over again. The thing is that we all grew up a long time ago, but we're still being treated like kids, like unintelligent, deceitful, irrational bastards who need to be coerced and corrected and have the right answers beaten out of them. — Serhiy Zhadan

Selling your house, giving away possessions, working multiple jobs for a period of time, going back to school and moving in with friends or relatives, sharing a car with your partner and riding your bike more, investing all your savings in a new venture, living on the other side of the world for a year - your friends may not understand, your co-workers may not get it, your extended family may think you've lost your mind - that's okay. Better to receive some odd looks and have a few people roll their eyes than spend your days wondering, What if I did that . . . ? Take that step. Make that leap. Try that new thing. If it helps clarify your ikigai, if it gets you up in the morning, if it's good for you and the world, do it. — Rob Bell

We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility. — Paul Robeson

Most of what we've done at SurveyMonkey is create a market, which I would say is much harder than trying to enter a market that already exists. But if you get it right, it can become a great business. — Dave Goldberg

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend. — Henry David Thoreau

Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to work with. — Paul Theroux

Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it? — Rosie Thomas

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us. — Sacha Guitry

I'm not big on snacks, but I if do, I like a few M&M's. — Grandmaster Flash

There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors. — Miriam Toews

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. — Plato

IF YOU WANT TO transfer a few hundred gigabytes of data, it's generally faster to FedEx a hard drive than to send the files over the Internet. This isn't a new idea - it's often dubbed "SneakerNet" - and it's even how Google transfers large amounts of data internally. — Randall Munroe