Culture persists only because we cannot think of what to do. Minute after minute.
Logan Nygaard, A Treatise on Amusement.
Multitasking: Because the things we do today are so devoid of substance, many people have come to believe that they are capable of engaging in several of these at the same time.
Gunther Pinks, A Paranoid’s Pitiful Propositions.
491. You cannot know how stupid a person is until you ask him and he tells you.
Trevor Martens, A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.
Oh, cousin, look at us! Are we not loftie?
Thomas Gallowes, Titus Moans. (1620)
Alice doesn’t live in one of the wonderful places. What should she do?
A. Engage in long fits of sobbing.
B. Bravely acknowledge her failure.
C. Stop paying attention.
D. Move immediately to a wonderful place.
Rollo Marquardt, Dwelling in the Cupcake World.
noise R us
Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
The great dread of the “millennial” generation: that the only culture they know (Internet) might be shallow, pointless, and uninteresting.
Winston Joyce, Bovine Egalitarianism and Other Essays.
Nigel had lost interest in paying attention. That’s the way he would have put it.
Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.
Logic is not about being logical. It is completely intuitive.
Jonathan Arness, The Blue Rider.
She has been led to think that she should be more important than she apparently is.
Charles Jeffrey Yett, Writing in Miniature—Vol. Three.
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