Carlos Ortega

“Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.”
― Jean Baudrillard

“God's Final Message to His Creation:
'We apologize for the inconvenience.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“My message to you is this: Pretend that you have free will. It’s essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don’t. The reality isn’t important; what’s important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.

(story: What's Expected of Us)”
― Ted Chiang, What's Expected of Us

“I find that a duck’s opinion of me is very much influenced over whether or not I have bread.”
― Mitch Hedberg