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Speak like this

I wanted to talk like a Kevin Smith [wikipedia.org] character when I was in high school…

Jesus, nobody twisted your arm to be here. You’re here of your own volition. You like to think the weight of the world rests on your shoulder. Like this place would fall apart if Dante wasn’t here. Jesus, you overcompensate for having what’s basically a monkey’s job. You push fucking buttons. Anybody can waltz in here and do our jobs. You-You’re so obsessed with making it seem so much more epic, so much more important than it really is. Christ, you work in a convenience store, Dante! And badly, I might add! I work in a shitty video store, badly as well. You know, that guy Jay’s got it right, man. He has no delusions about what he does. Us, we like to make ourselves seem so much more important than the people that come in here to buy a paper, or, god forbid, cigarettes. We look down on them as if we’re so advanced. Well, if we’re so fucking advanced, what are we doing working here?

Randal Graves, in “Clerks” [imdb.com]

Now, I think I might prefer Anthony Bourdain [wikipedia.org]…

“Alice Waters annoys the living shit out of me. We’re all in the middle of a recession, like we’re all going to start buying expensive organic food and running to the green market. There’s something very Khmer Rouge about Alice Waters that has become unrealistic. I mean I’m not crazy about our obsession with corn or ethanol and all that, but I’m a little uncomfortable with legislating good eating habits. I’m suspicious of orthodoxy, the kind of orthodoxy when it comes to what you put in your mouth. I’m a little reluctant to admit that maybe Americans are too stupid to figure out that the food we’re eating is killing us. But I don’t know if it’s time to send out special squads to close all the McDonald’s. My libertarian side is at odds with my revulsion at what we as a country have done to ourselves physically with what we’ve chosen to eat and our fast food culture. I’m really divided on that issue.”

Anthony Bourdain

If I prefer Anthony Bourdain, it’s only because you can’t talk like Kevin Smith characters in the real world… unless you live in a frat house or work in porn…

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Download some good sense

And thanks to Twitter further eroding the wall between your big mouth and a moment required to download some good sense, the Internet is now empowered to get you fired faster than ever.

Helen A.S. Popkin in “Twitter gets you fired in 140 characters or less” [msnbc.msn.com]

I wonder how this will pan out in 20 years… when the perpetrators of the drunkfails are in positions of power? Will they ignore others online persona or will we all learn to keep our online persona and our professional persona separated enough to avoid such tragicomedies?

…and remember the Internet never forgets! [confusion.cc]

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Startup…

“‘Startup’ means convincing customers and investors you know how to run before you have learned to crawl.”

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Make gods for me!

“In the mists before THE BEGINNING, Fate and Chance cast lots to decide whose the Game should be; and he that won strode through the mists to MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI and said: “Now make gods for Me, for I have won the cast and the Game is to be Mine.” Who it was that won the cast, and whether it was Fate or whether Chance that went through the mists before THE BEGINNING to MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI — none knoweth.”

Lord Dunsany, from The Gods of Pegāna [wikipedia.org].

Full book available via Project Gutenberg [gutenburg.com].

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Chickens Eggs and Mousetraps

“It’s a major chicken-and-egg problem. Hopefully someone out there will build a better mousetrap …”

Timothy [monkey.org] in a post on Slashdot [slashdot.org]

Brilliant mixing of metaphors! Just Brilliant!