"Progress has not brought about universal happiness..."
- Adam Leith Gollner
"Now everything is done by machines, technology has relieved you of much work. What to do? You become aggressive, you fight, you get angry. Without any reason or rhyme, you become angry – suddenly you ..."
- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of..."
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
"If Da Vinci had to tweet 5 times a day, we’d still be riding bicycles."
- Natasha Tsakos
"The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free"
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"I’m sorry to pull you out of your classes, but your adviser understands,” Kitteredge said. “He’s a friend of the family.”So that’s it, Neal thought. You bought me; you own me."
- Don Winslow
"Life today has become a series of spectacles to be viewed, not actions to be lived."
- Pete Sanders
"Never forget that you live in an ecosystem designed to disrupt you and it will take you for a ride if you let it."
- Michael Harris
"One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult."
- Jaron Lanier
"To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!"
- Steven Magee