Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley
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There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
-- Vaclav Havel
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
-- Mel Brooks
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Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
-- Kurt Vonnegut
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A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
-- Gian Vincenzo Gravina
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill
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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
-- Erich Fromm
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Experience with technology teaches us that once a technology makes something possible, it gets applied, whether for good or bad.
-- Donald Norman
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Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
-- Thomas H. Huxley
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Digital loafing can be exhausting precisely because it can be rewarding. And the moment it starts to reward, it ceases to be truly wasteful.
-- Jacob Brogan (Slate (Aug 25 2016))
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