I Am Alone. Quotes
That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time
We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us.
We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory.
Underestimation has its uses.
I love you just the way you arebut you don't see you like I do.You shouldn't try so hard to be perfect.Trust me, perfect should try to be you.
I was always a stranger at home, in all the places I ever lived.
Those straight-spined parishioners could justify their exhibitionism by telling themselves that they were setting an example, even educating the rest of us.
Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new
Children content with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.
There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete.
When the world falls asleep, authors weave the stories that are called dreams.. and when authors dare to jot down.. that's called making dreams come true.
What does an introvert do when he's left alone? He stays alone.
We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.
Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag--they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.
America is bad at discriminating between danger likely to strike again, and red herrings, the freaking helpings of disaster that no man or plan can prevent.
It's not that we don't care--it's just that that we'd prefer not to get involved.
We were asked to do very little, and we responded. That's the bargain we tacitly make with our presidents: we won't ask too much of you, if you don't ask too much of us.
This is a new nonnegotiable: to feel safe, you have to be connected.
Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available.
People who need people are threatened by people who don’t. The idea of seeking contentment alone is heretical, for society steadfastly decrees that our completeness lies in others.
He experiences a connection where knowledge does not interfere with wonder.
A woman in her late sixties described her new iPhone: "it's like having a little time square in my pocketbook. All lights. All the people I could meet.
Face-to-face with a computer, people reflected on who they were in the mirror of the machine.
When one becomes accustomed to "companionship" without demands, life with people may seem overwhelming. Dependence on a person is risky but it also opens us to deeply knowing another.
My cell phone is my only individual zone, just for me.
Once we become tethered to the network, we really don't need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY.
Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one.
Computers brought philosophy into everyday life.
Fantasies and wishes carry their own significant messages.
He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous.
Technophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead.
We may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection.
Online life is about premeditation.
He makes an effort to be more spontaneous on Facebook.
True patriotism is doing something for your country.
You have to understand the sea, he said, to listen to her, to look out for her moods, to get to know her and respect her and love her. Only then can you build boats that feel at home on the sea.
Under stress, they seek composure above all. But they do not find equanimity.
That's a very admirable quality in a wife. The ability to admit she is in the wrong.
Children contend with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.
Connectivity becomes a craving.
I stopped rowing for a moment to glug down some water, but it was warm, tasted of plastic, and failed to refresh. I yearned for an ice-cold drink—preferably one with bubbles and alcohol in it.
