“His narrator has left us a way out that can be reclaimed by anyone venturesome enough to try it: He patiently attends to his own motorcycle, submits to its quirky mechanical needs and learns to understand it. His way of living with machines doesn’t rely on the seductions of effortless convenience; i…”— Matthew B. Crawford, smithsonianmag.com
“People went ahead and built those things without worrying much about the consequences, because they figured that, by 2018, we’d have come up with all the answers.”— Jill Lepore, newyorker.com
“I don't know where I'm gonna be in five years. I don't wanna know. I want my life to be an adventure.”— Craig Thomas, Robin Scherbatsky, Cobie Smulders, imdb.com
“This raises the question: As we grope toward the brave new automated world, is a university degree in, say, economics, philosophy, English, or anything else that isn’t to do with fixing cobots (collaborative robots) or writing algorithms, worth the PDF file it was exported on? Or is it, practically…”— Matt Blake, vice.com
“Let the water wash away everything that you've become. On your knees, today is gone and tomorrow's sure to come.”— Tyler Joseph, youtube.com
“None of us can change the things we’ve done. But we can all change what we do next.”— Dan Nowak, Naren Shankar, Robin Veith, Col. Frederick Lucius Johnson, Chad L. Coleman, imdb.com
“I’m preparing to binge every episode of The Handmaid’s Tale. The show’s lack of transgender characters, whether intentional or unintentional, brings up a lot of questions about what the future may hold for the trans community in a dystopian world.”— Jessie Earl, advocate.com
“Chinese feminists found a way around it—they began using #RiceBunny in its place along with the rice bowl and bunny face emoji. When spoken aloud the words for “rice bunny” are pronounced “mi tu,” a homophone that cleverly evades detection.”— Margaret Andersen, wired.com
“My favorite cartoon is The Flintstones. It’s the funniest thing to me. But when my children are sitting with me trying to watch it, the whole frequency is too slow for them. Everything has sped up and recalibrated; the children are vibrating faster.”— Erykah Badu, vulture.com
“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Sometimes, the reason God doesn’t tell us what’s in our future is because he knows we would talk ourselves out of it.”— Joel Osteen, youtube.com
“Between the heroin epidemic, the instant gratification culture of the Internet, and this, a Brave New World seems plausible now.”— Joshua Grubbs, twitter.com
“This, then, is the human problem: there is a price to be paid for every increase in consciousness. We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. By remembering the past we can plan for the future. But the ability to plan for the future is offset by the "ability" to dr…”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“You often do not know what's best for your life. Predicting your future does not make it more guaranteed to happy. It just closes you off. It gets you attached to an idea that you only want to be reality because you're attached to it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“The problems that are in front of you are actually behind you; they are cracks in your foundation that are holding you back. Stop trying to dismantle symptoms, go back and identify the causes.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“What would be too good to believe if someone were to sit down and tell you what's coming next in your life?”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“You're not upset about what you lost - you're upset about what you never really had the chance to have in the first place.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Imagine speaking with your oldest, wisest, most optimal future self. What you're doing is tapping deep into your subconscious. Let your choices be guided by the person you hope to become.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com