Источник: JPod (2006)
Контексте: You know what? When you read a book, you’re totally lost in your own private world, and society says that’s a good and wonderful thing. But if you play a game by yourself, it’s this weird, fucked-up, socially damaging activity.
In my neighbourhood, all the teenage boys are dying because they’re driving their cars using videogame physics instead of real-world physics. They turn too quickly and change lanes too quickly. They don’t understand traction or centripetal force. And they’re dropping like flies.
Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky?
Don’t discuss Sony like it’s a great big benevolent cartoon character who lives next door to Astro Boy. Like any company, Sony is comprised of individuals who are fearful for their jobs on a daily basis, and who make lame decisions based pretty much on fear and conforming to social norms — but then, that’s every corporation on earth, so don’t single out one specific corporation as lovable and cute. They’re all evil and greedy. They’re all sort of in the moral middle ground, where good and bad cancel each other out, so there’s nothing really there — which, in it’s own way, far darker than any paranoid or patriarchal theory of Sony.
Here’s a much simpler example of geeks and neural processing malfunctions: Has anybody experienced a geek environment in which said geeks wear perfume or deodorant? Chances are no. While advanced microautistics are more commonly men than women, both share a marked dislike of scent.
Дуглас Коупленд: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 2)
Дуглас Коупленд есть канадский писатель. Цитаты на английском языке.“… blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.”
Источник: All Families are Psychotic
“So where do you start when you want to start your life again?”
Источник: Hey Nostradamus!
“Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers.”
Источник: Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)
“As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.”
Источник: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture