I don't play the lottery. I don't care what my horoscope says. I think most things about the world could be improved if people thought more about what they're doing. When someone gets upset with their computer, I tend to side with the computer. I think art is overrated, and bridges are underrated. In fact, I don't understand why bridges aren't art. It seems to me they're penalized for having a use. If I make a bridge that ends in midair, that's a sculpture. But put it between two landmasses and let it ferry two hundred thousand cars per day and it's infrastructure. That makes no sense.
That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did. - Max Barry
That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.
- Max Barry
People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are. - Max Barry
People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.
What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body. But the possibility of a naked body is something special. - Max Barry
What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body. But the possibility of a naked body is something special.
When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all. - Max Barry
When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.
My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering … - Max Barry
My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering …
By this action, the Government has proved that so long as it exists, none of us are truly free. Government and freedom are mutually exclusive. So if … - Max Barry
By this action, the Government has proved that so long as it exists, none of us are truly free. Government and freedom are mutually exclusive. So if …
Hey, I saw this old British movie, all the people spoke so different, you could hardly understand them. But everyone here speaks American as good as … - Max Barry
Hey, I saw this old British movie, all the people spoke so different, you could hardly understand them. But everyone here speaks American as good as …
There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed. - Max Barry
There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.
Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye. - Max Barry
Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.
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