“The past cannot be recaptured. Memory is overlaid with later memory, mangled by self-justification and self-pity, guarded by self-interest, rent by great gaps of forgetfulness.”— Herbert A. Simon, amazon.com
“When I came to New York I was in pieces, and though it sounds perverse, the way I recovered a sense of wholeness was not by meeting someone or by falling in love, but rather by handling the things that other people had made, slowly absorbing by way of this contact the fact that loneliness, longing,…”— Olivia Laing, amazon.com
“The kids get it. But the grown-ups do not. While celebrating the diversity of sexual and gender identities, we also need to celebrate tomboys and other girls who fall outside the narrow confines of gender roles. Don’t tell them that they’re not girls. My daughter is happy with her body and comfortab…”— Lisa Selin Davis, mobile.nytimes.com
“How am I going to be mysterious when I've been this honest with you?”— Harry Styles, rollingstone.com
“Is an eagle and a salmon level? Does the salmon ever get to eat the eagle? No. The universe does not want even! It wants conflict and resolution and constant improvement. Okay?”— Joe Rogan, imdb.com
“Someday there’ll be a robot in every house, doing the dishes, making the beds, even looking after the children while the parents work.”— Pedro Domingos, amazon.com
“Scars can be a beautiful reminder of the past…except the ones from drinking coffee in bed and scalding my bare chest. Those are just dumb.”— Mamrie Hart, twitter.com
“The more time you worry about what others are doing the less you can focus building yourself up.”— Brandon Woelfel, twitter.com
“I for one am afraid that our American culture’s overemphasis on happiness at the expense of sadness might be dangerous, a wanton forgetting of an essential part of a full life. I further am wary in the face of this possibility: to desire only happiness in a world undoubtedly tragic is to become inau…”— Eric G. Wilson, amazon.com
“Even if we’re full of despair over what the internet has become, it’s good to remind yourself that it’s an amazing thing. In the habits that we enjoy, there are the seeds for the future. That’s where the good internet will rise up again.”— Nick Denton, fortune.com
“Nevertheless, there is important work to be done in philosophy, journalism, biography, and other genres that may never be bestsellers but are just as important to society. Such stories are like elegant math problems that, while not applicable to a wide audience, are still useful to those who know ho…”— Chris Lavergne, techcrunch.com
“Books aren’t an antiquated technology. Books are cutting-edge technology.”— Chris Lavergne, techcrunch.com
“There's so much money to be made as a self-help writer I think, because we all want to believe that there is just one piece that we are missing, some learning we can apply to our lives and it will make everything make sense.”— Chrissy Stockton, facebook.com
“The O’Reilly boycott is a bad idea. Even if you hate the guy, think of it this way: It may end up energizing calls for advertising boycotts against the on-air talent you like, inspiring timidity among ad buyers who are already too timid. My preference—call it self-interest—is for advertisers to plac…”— Jack Shafer, politico.com