Robert Crawley:

I find the whole idea a kind of thief of life. That people should waste hours huddled around a wooden box, listening to someone talking at them, burbling inanities from somewhere else.

Rana Dasgupta:

For, as all true celebrities discover, the media image feeds parasitically on human energy, starving them and removing them, slowly, from the realm of the living.

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Robin Hemley:

We tend to judge most heavily those who we know the least. The richer or more famous, the less we know them.

Ellie Appleton:

I’ve been waiting half my life for you to wake up and love me. Having loved you for half a lifetime, I realized when you left, that I had made a bad choice doing that.

Tony lip:

You know, world’s full of lonely people afraid to make the first move.

Also, Cateva conversatii despre o fata foarte inalta.

Hedy Page:

I believe nature and nurture both matter. But I think nurture can overcome nearly everything.

Mirai:

Small things like that added up to make us what we are now.

^{*It’s like a bitch slap, but a hug instead. Almost instinctual, with minimal thought and maximal force.}

Julie Irwin Zimmerman:

Next time a story like this surfaces, I’ll try to sit it out until more facts have emerged. I’ll remind myself that the truth is sometimes unknowable, and I’ll stick to discussing the news with people I know in real life, instead of with strangers whom I’ve never met. I’ll get my news from legitimate journalists instead of from an online mob for whom Saturday-morning indignation is just another form of entertainment. And above all, I’ll try to take the advice I give my kids daily: Put the phone down and go do something productive.

Bruce Schneier:

This is a perennial problem: we can get information quickly, or we can get accurate information. It’s hard to get both at the same time.

Tim Urban:

Human yearning is a game of choices and sacrifices and compromise.

Kyle Chayka:

In contrast, we know the machine doesn’t care about us, nor does it have a cultivated taste of its own; it only wants us to engage with something it calculates we might like.

May Parker:

Secrets have a cost. They’re not free. Not now, not ever.

Bruce Schneier on Kashmir Hill’s How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You’ve Ever Met:

Mobile phone numbers are even better than social security numbers for identifying people. People give them out all the time, and they’re strongly linked to identity.

Laura Smith asked.

Alex, The Beauty Inside:

Being good looking opens doors, no matter who you are. They say it’s what’s on the inside that counts, that’s kinda hard to count when nobody can see your inside.

Not having to worry about what shirt to put on every morning is one of the secrets to a happy life.

Michael Hobbes:

This is why the touchstone experience of millennials, the thing that truly defines us, is not helicopter parenting or unpaid internships or Pokémon Go. It is uncertainty.

Elspeth Reeve:

At first you loathe the teens, because you know nothing about them and think they’re idiots, beneath you. Then you love the teens because you figure out they are smarter than you, and you make peace with the death of your cultural relevance, because you know you’ll be in good hands. Finally, you recognize the shape of the adults they’ll become, corrupted by money and vanity and hubris just like everyone else.

Those that understand, teach.

Libby Copeland:

It is astonishing what DNA testing can do. The same technology can cleave families apart or knit them together.