R. U. Sirius Quotes
The rise of the Net and the Web represents a victory for the counterculture and the subculture. The next generation, raised on the Net as their primary medium, won't even know what consensus reality is.
Quotes to Explore
-
I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
-
We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
-
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
-
I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
-
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
-
I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
-
The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
-
Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
-
But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
-
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
-
I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.
-
From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
-
I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
-
Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.
-
Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
-
My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.
-
The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
-
I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.
-
If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
-
I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
-
As an individual navigating this reality, you have to make choices to survive. Sometimes you happily work for free if it's something you love and believe in. I'm not categorically saying that working for free is bad. I'm just looking at the broader implications of it, and also challenge this idea - and again, this is an argument made by certain people in the tech world - that amateurs are automatically more pure and will triumph over stodgy professionals.
-
Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.
-
When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden.
-
The rise of the Net and the Web represents a victory for the counterculture and the subculture. The next generation, raised on the Net as their primary medium, won't even know what consensus reality is.
