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" Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo. "
Douglas Coupland
Eagles
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" Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. "
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" Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal. "
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" Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine. "
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" By your thirties, you should be doing whatever it is you're supposed to be doing with your life and just get on with it - which is what I suppose happened with me as much as to anyone else. "
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" For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement. "
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" When you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and it actually saves the day - you can't prejudge technologies now because they have effects you may not have intended. "
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" Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem. "
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" I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part. "
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" My Google existence is probably larger than a lot of people's. "
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" Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters. "
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" I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened. "
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" When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging? "
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" Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you. "
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" Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.' "
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" Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them. "
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" Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others. "
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" In Canada, we're happy to provide a safe haven for next-door neighbors in the middle of a marital dispute. And if anyone trips while crossing the border, we're happy to set their broken bones for free. "
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" I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.' "
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" I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write. "
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" If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater? "
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" Quick. Name ten dead redheads. "
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" There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a round of drinks with the money he snagged. And everyone would find him tremendously good company. But not any more. "
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" I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along. "
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" To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot. "
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" The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would. "
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" I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time. "
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" I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M. "
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" I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow. "
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" It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you. "
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" The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com? "
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