Y2k Quotes

“I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.”
― Douglas Adams

“He seemed smaller to me than he had that morning. The disappointment in his features was so childlike, for a moment I wondered how God could deny him this. He, a faithful servant, who suffered willingly just as Noah had willingly suffered to build the ark.

But God withheld the flood.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Do you think the Y2K thing is going to mess everything up? Katie asked.
"I don't know. I think everything's already messed up after Columbine. Like, what kind of world do we live in if you can get shot up in your high school?"
"That was horrible. But I think it's kind of a one-time thing. People won't stand for that kind of tragedy to keep happening.”
― Sara Farizan, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“For as long as I could remember, the weather had felt apocalyptic. Y2K fever and the War on Drugs and the War on Terror. The death of bees and the death of bats and radioactivity in the oceans and ravenous hurricanes. I thought the country was like a fire that would rage and rage until the embers lost their heat....”
― Laura van den Berg, Find Me

“Dad called it Y2K. On January 1, he said, computer systems all over the world would fail. There would be no electricity, no telephones. All would sink into chaos, and this would usher in the Second Coming of Christ.”
― Tara Westover, Educated