Samuel

“Distraction is the permanent end state of the perfected consumer, not least because distraction is a state that is eminently programmable. To buy a guitar is to open possibilities. To buy Guitar Hero is to close them.”
― Nicholas Carr, Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations

“Maybe you're the kind of person who remembers which bush to burn in 'The Legend of Zelda' to find the labyrinth, or maybe you're the kind of person who remembers the score to some sports game years ago. Maybe you like to go around in a 'Star Trek' uniform, or you like to go around in a sports uniform. And I don't mean like a sports T-shirt, but the same jersey that the players in the game wear.

Whatever the case, maybe, somehow, in our own ways,

We're all nerds.”
― James D. Rolfe

“It is quite probable that the most original problem solving activity students engage in school is related to the invention of systems for beating the system.”
― Neil Postman, Teaching as a Subversive Activity

“Maybe that's what happens when a tornado meets a volcano”
― Eminem