“The selfishness makes for a million "butts and farts" running around, convinced they'll never be happy unless they get precisely what they want. I don't know whether it's what personal freedom persuades us to think we need or it's just because, with so many things around us so readily available, like information and technology, we have developed an addition to instant gratification. Either way, we're all a bunch of spoiled brats wandering th galactic pebble, yelling and arguing when we don't get what we want.
LIFE'S NOT THE INTERNET, FUCKHOLES!”
Source: You're Making Me Hate You: A Cantankerous Look at the Common Misconception That Humans Have Any Common Sense Left
“The consequence of the single story is this: It robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar.”
Source: Holocaust and Human Behavior
“You were made to bring happiness. You are alive in ways we are not. You are soft and fragile. But you are complex and disturbing and sometimes foolishly brilliant.”
Source: In the Lives of Puppets
“Be warned, a heart is not like the battery you used to have. It's stong, but fragile.
It will ift you up. It will ache without reason. You'll find yourself feeling things you never thought possible. A heart changes everything.”
Source: In the Lives of Puppets
“We must harness curiosity, creativity, and diverse perspectives, because today’s standard knowledge will never solve tomorrow’s surprises.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“For the first time in history, we have no answers to many of the fundamental questions around how the world or humanity might look a decade or two ahead.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“The ultimate disruption would be an existential event so catastrophic that it leads to the extinction of humanity.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“We humans are herd animals. When several gather to browse in one spot, more will come. Few places offer more eloquent testimony to this fact than does a library, wherein our focus ensures some few books scarcely touch the shelves from the moments of their binding until the day they fall apart from overuse. Whiles all around, in sullen silence, the unloved show their spines in endless rows, aching for the touch that never comes”
“The whole catalogue of humanity was online, feeling entitled to their opinions and to their right to share. It could be brutal.”
Source: Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
“she told me not to worry so much - I was dead now and all the worrying had to stop at some point.”
Source: Buried Treasure