“Mobile dating went mainstream about five years ago; by 2012 it was overtaking online dating. In February, one study reported there were nearly 100 million people—perhaps 50 million on Tinder alone—using their phones as a sort of all-day, every-day, handheld singles club, where they might find a sex…”— Nancy Jo Sales, vanityfair.com
“Humans don't mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.”— Sebastian Junger, amazon.com
“How do you become an adult in a society that doesn't ask for sacrifice?”— Sebastian Junger, amazon.com
“We’re the influencers, but the people being influenced don’t have a clue, they think it’s real life. And that’s kind of dangerous.”— Ama Peters, theguardian.com
“I coded everything. And what came out of that was my first tutorial site where I was teaching people – other girls, mostly – to code. I had a 'staff member' when I was 14, also writing tutorials. That's what I was doing in my spare time.”— Madison Kanna, rollingstone.com
“We’re living in a world where image and Internet is getting so important, people care more about how many likes they’re going to get than about the perfection of their cut. So, to me, it’s like the surface of the water when it makes bubbles. That’s not deep enough.”— Jean Touitou, vogue.com
“Kaur is, in industry parlance, a hack. And while most of us who write for a living believe ourselves to be hacks, at least most of us don’t run around saying the ultimate goal of our work is to be blown up to poster size.”— Lindsey Adler, theconcourse.deadspin.com
“I suppose an aesthetics-first approach to poetry is the perfect strategy for an aesthetics-first platform.”— Lindsey Adler, theconcourse.deadspin.com
“It had to be fun to visit, too, but if you didn't like the photos you took there—well, then what was the point?”— Arielle Pardes, wired.com
“We’re all flabbergasted, to be frank. I wonder, what are they even trying to say? ‘I am here Instagramming?’ It’s like this new first-person narrative of the museum experience. I’m fascinated.”— Nicholas Bell, wired.com
“Visitors are allotted about 90 minutes to explore the museum, but it’s hard to imagine what you’d do during that time if you weren’t taking photos.”— Arielle Pardes, wired.com
“The first thing counselors tell sex addicts is to stop watching porn, and we really shouldn’t be watching this much HGTV during our rehab. Although it’s a soothing experience, it is also a fomenter of deep feelings of discontent about one’s living arrangements, which began to hit me hard around week…”— Caitlin Flanagan, vulture.com
“We'll FaceTime and she'll come down and visit me on set. There's times that a text is appropriate. Other times you need to talk on the phone. The problem with people texting all the time is that if you're texting somebody everything you're doing throughout the day, there's no catch up. It removes th…”— Miles Teller, elle.com
“Whenever you check for a new post on Instagram or whenever you go on The New York Times to see if there's a new thing, it's not even about the content. It's just about seeing a new thing. You get addicted to that feeling.”— Aziz Ansari, gq.com
“I was reading all this Trump stuff, and it doesn't feel like we're reading news for the reason we used to, which was to get a better sense of what's going on in the world and to enrich yourself by being aware. It seems like we're reading wrestling rumors. It's like reading about what happened on Mon…”— Aziz Ansari, gq.com
“If you’ve held someone you love and watched three to ten hours of a critically acclaimed drama, you’ve experienced the peak of human happiness.”— Aziz Ansari, amazon.com
“If you’ve held someone you love and watched three to ten hours of a critically acclaimed drama, you’ve experienced the peak of human happiness.”— Aziz Ansari, amazon.com
“managing my bank account like it's neopets viewing work as a game on neopets and everyone is in neopets costumes that are invisible”— Mallory Whitten, amazon.com