"Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting."

-- Clay Shirky

#Technology Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Boring Quotes

“The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves.”
“Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.”
“Being your authentic self is the ultimate secret to happiness in life!”
“Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.”
“Photography should be redefined. It's largely technical... Photography is just unbelievably limiting. I always think of David Bailey and all the fashion photographers - they overlap, you can't always tell who did it. I don't really even like photography all that much. I just think it's so overdone.”
“You can either practice being right or practice being kind.”

Source : Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.94, Penguin
“If I embrace who I am it will open doors not shut them. If your faith wonâ€™t fit in the door that opens then I argue do not walk through that door. The door that God has opened for you will fit your faith,”
“Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?”

Source : The Feminine Mystique ch. 1 (1963)

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