"We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired."

-- Scott Capurro

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“I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell into and really liked.”
“We are living through the most profound changes in the economy since the Industrial Revolution. Technology, globalization, and the accelerating pace of change have yielded chaotic markets, fierce competition, and unpredictable staff requirements.”
“Itâ€™s your fault. I was defending you!â€ I blurted. He paused. â€œIn protecting my honor, you exposed months of work. I should be flattered?”
“David Foster Wallace: I think one of the insidious lessons about TV is the meta-lesson that youâ€™re dumb. This is all you can do. This is easy, and youâ€™re the sort of person who really just wants to sit in a chair and have it easy. When in fact there are parts of us, in a way, that are a lot more ambitious than that. And what we need, I thinkâ€”and Iâ€™m not saying Iâ€™m the person to do it. But I think what we need is seriously engaged art, that can teach again that weâ€™re smart. And that thereâ€™s stuff that TV and moviesâ€”although theyâ€™re great at certain thingsâ€”cannot give us.”

Source : David Lipsky (2010). “Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace”, p.71, Broadway Books
“For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.”
“Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.”
“The problem we are faced with is that the meteorological establishment and the global warming lobby research bodies which receive large funding are now apparently so corrupted by the largesse they receive that the scientists in them have sold their integrity.”

Source : Weather Action Bulletin, December 2000.
“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a bookâ€”that string of confused, alien ciphersâ€”shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”

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