I Am Alone. Quotes
Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new
Children content with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.
There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete.
When the world falls asleep, authors weave the stories that are called dreams.. and when authors dare to jot down.. that's called making dreams come true.
We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.
Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag--they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.
America is bad at discriminating between danger likely to strike again, and red herrings, the freaking helpings of disaster that no man or plan can prevent.
It's not that we don't care--it's just that that we'd prefer not to get involved.
We were asked to do very little, and we responded. That's the bargain we tacitly make with our presidents: we won't ask too much of you, if you don't ask too much of us.
This is a new nonnegotiable: to feel safe, you have to be connected.
Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available.
People who need people are threatened by people who don’t. The idea of seeking contentment alone is heretical, for society steadfastly decrees that our completeness lies in others.
He experiences a connection where knowledge does not interfere with wonder.
A woman in her late sixties described her new iPhone: "it's like having a little time square in my pocketbook. All lights. All the people I could meet.
Face-to-face with a computer, people reflected on who they were in the mirror of the machine.
When one becomes accustomed to "companionship" without demands, life with people may seem overwhelming. Dependence on a person is risky but it also opens us to deeply knowing another.
My cell phone is my only individual zone, just for me.
Once we become tethered to the network, we really don't need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY.
Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one.
Computers brought philosophy into everyday life.
Fantasies and wishes carry their own significant messages.
When the I AM THAT I AM made nothingAnd rested, which rest it certainly deserved, Night now accompanied day, and manHad his friend in the absence of the woman.
This has been a covert preparation for an overt operation." - Rory in NEVER GO ALONE
Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself.
It seems only yesterday I used to believethere was nothing under my skin but light.If you cut me I could shine.But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed.
Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.
One of the privileges of childhood is that some of the world is mediated by adults.
Relationships we complain about nevertheless keep us connected to life.
When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.
Challenge quandary thinking, either/or thinking come by moving from the abstract to the concrete. What can we do with the choice actually in front of us?
For him, mastery of the game world is a source of joy.
When you're young you can't work out the age of an adult - they're just quite old, old, or very old.
Swaddle in our favorites, we missed out on what was in our peripheral vision.
The idea of the original had no place.
Reading, my earliest refuge in the unknown world, made me want to venture into it.
One of the many drawbacks of this "I teach what I am" approach is that it stifles classroom discussion. Any disagreement with the professor's expertise comes off as an ad hominem attack.
Faced with our addiction to oil, what does our leadership say? Get more o
Why can't we say 'When!' about money the way we say 'When!' about coffee?
Slavery was, in fact, a social system designed to destroy social capital among slaves and between slaves and freemen.
Generations of readers, bored with their own alienating, repetitious jobs, have been mesmerized by Crusoe's essential, civilization-building chores.
One small hand lifted to the shower head and he stilled. He’d yet to see her skin
I miss that world from the safe distance of memory.
The journal is written to everyone and thus to no one.
Technophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead.
We may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection.
Online life is about premeditation.