Evernote Openbook: Quotes

"There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:13:20 GMT

"There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good."

-Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:54:50 GMT

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."

-Sir Francis Bacon

"Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning."

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:35:14 GMT

"Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning."

-Marlo Thomas

"I know the moment's near, and there's nothing we can do. Look through a faithless eye. Are you afraid to die?"

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:48:46 GMT

"I know the moment's near, and there's nothing we can do. Look through a faithless eye. Are you afraid to die?"

Muse, Thoughts of a Dying Atheist

"I want something good to die for, to make it beautiful to live."

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:52:30 GMT

"I want something good to die for, to make it beautiful to live."

Go With the Flow, Queens of the Stone Age

"When there's no way out, the only way out is to give in"

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:30:10 GMT

"When there's no way out, the only way out is to give in"

Metric, Empty, Live It Out

"maybe it's just me, but I don't feel like that person anymore. I never did."

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:12:45 GMT

"maybe it's just me, but I don't feel like that person anymore. I never did."

Steve Zissou (Bill Murray)

"because I hate fathers and never wanted to be one"

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:13:00 GMT

"because I hate fathers and never wanted to be one"

Steve Zissou (Bill Murray)

"I am waiting for the rain, to wash who I am"

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:50:54 GMT

"I am waiting for the rain, to wash who I am"

Infected Mushroom, I Wish, Converting Vegetarians

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:04:20 GMT

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

Winston Churchill

"in their thirties who are not quite gifted or single-minded enough to fulfill their dreams"

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:30:48 GMT

"in their thirties who are not quite gifted or single-minded enough to fulfill their dreams"

New Yorker, review of Intimacy

"So kill me if you can. Words won't make me bleed."

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:29:32 GMT

"So kill me if you can. Words won't make me bleed."
Hybrid, If I Survive

"...missed the opportunity to be the better man"

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:05:12 GMT

"And I've had recurring nightmares,

that I was loathed for who I am,

and missed the opportunity,

to be the better man"

Muse, Hoodoo

"The people that you've been before, that you don't want around anymore"

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:08:30 GMT

"The people that you've been before, that you don't want around anymore"

Elliott Smith, Between the Bars

"If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be"-Cab driver pushed my dead car to safety. He didn't have to but he did

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:53:28 GMT

"If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be"-Cab driver pushed my dead car to safety. He didn't have to but he did

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