Tal M. Klein > Quotes

“Bullshit this, bullshit that. You keep using that word like it means something other than what comes out of a cow. It's not bullshit, Yoel. It's life.”
― Tal M. Klein, The Punch Escrow

“This is like a reverse clown car.”
― Tal M. Klein, The Punch Escrow

“When railroads were first introduced, some people thought the speed would be so intense, it would cause their organs to shoot out of their rectums”
― Tal M. Klein, The Punch Escrow

“in 2147 governments still existed, but they were mostly for show, like the royal family in Great Britain had been for several centuries. This began in the twenty-first century, when the US Supreme Court ruled that corporations had the same rights as people. Then”
― Tal M. Klein, The Punch Escrow

“Imagine looking in the mirror and not knowing who you are. An empty face staring back. No one. We rarely think about how much air is around us until we can’t breathe. We always imagine what it would be like to be someone else, but when we do so, it’s with the guise that beneath it all, we know who we really are. Take that away, and who are we?”
― Tal M. Klein, The Punch Escrow

“I’m guessing if you asked anyone from IT about the moral implications, they would likely extol humanity’s well-documented historical grapples with new transportation technologies. When railroads were first introduced, some people thought the speed would be so intense, it would cause their organs to shoot out of their rectums. But folks still got on board. Whether via land, sea, air, or ether, the desire for more efficient transport has always trumped philosophical worries.”
― Tal M. Klein, The Punch Escrow

“I’m not one to kick a gift horse in the nuts,”
― Tal M. Klein, The Punch Escrow

“It’s funny how the devout pretend like they want people to ask questions, but really they only want you to ask the questions that they have answers to. You ask the wrong questions, things they don’t want to answer, they get mad.”
― Tal M. Klein, The Punch Escrow

“I nodded, making sure to put on my “serious listening” face. It’s one I developed in childhood, honed during my teenage years, and perfected through lots of trial and error in my marriage. It’s proven fairly reliable.”
― Tal M. Klein, The Punch Escrow