I. D. Douglas Quotes

You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.

Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.

OPTION PARALYSIS: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.

Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they're still getting real food.

Shopping is Not Creating.

NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON

STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.

I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.

ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they hug where I live now.'

Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!

You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?

Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?

I think God is how you deal with everything that's out of your own control.

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

Los Angelenos dress like they've been focus-grouped.

All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.

Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.

The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.

Time erases both the best and the worst of us.

Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

There is no shame in impulse.

The past is a finite resource.

I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day

At least when you're young you're also stupid.

I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger

You can never become rich unless you like rich people.

HISTORICALOVERDOSING:To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.

MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one.

It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me.

Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.

I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.

Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating.

I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it.

The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.

I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.

Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them.

TV is all about hair. And then skin. And then clothing. And then it's about your voice. And finally the report, what you're actually saying. And 99 times out of 100, it never gets past the hair.

It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.

I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.

I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.

The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.

Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.

I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

I have never understood the appeal of babies, they seem such horrible creatures most of the time!

GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions.

Israel has the best engineers in the world... I view Israel as a tremendous source of technologies