Gabriel Roth > Quotes

“Somewhere between banging on logs and the invention of M.I.D.I. technology we have made a terrible wrong turn. We must have ridden right past our stop. We should have stepped down off the train at that moment when rhythm and harmony and technology all culminated to a single Otis Redding whine. That moment of the truest, most genuine expression of what it means to be human.”
― Gabriel Roth

“We can only know each other the way we know distant stars: by observing years-old light, gathering outdated information, running calculations and making inferences.”
― Gabriel Roth, The Unknowns

“And then I had to go on these dates, dozens of them, one after another, all formally identical, struggling each time to remember that I was seated across from an entire human being with a unique consciousness and a full set of associations, each of us iterating on our questions and answers like algorithms trying to mate.”
― Gabriel Roth, The Unknowns