loughlin’s most recent Quotables

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

The greatest form of distraction, however, has to be the pursuit of swanky material goods. Nothing staves off that gnawing sense of dread quite like a spending spree. Maybe I won't get my legs blown off by terrorists if I buy enough aspirational bullsh*t? That's the spirit.

That's Glastonbury: a cross between a medieval refugee camp and a recently detonated circus.

What's another word for thesaurus?

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of our technology can drive out knowledge.

A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion it has taken place.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don't have any surface noise. I said, "Listen, mate, *life* has surface noise."

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

The internet. Can we trust in that? Of course not. Give it six months and we'll probably discover Google's sewn together by orphans in sweatshops. Or that Wi-Fi does something horrible to your brain, like eating your fondest memories and replacing them with drawings of cross-eyed bats and a strong smell of puke.

The greatest change in the history of media is that, within the span of a single human generation, people’s access to information has shifted from relative scarcity to surfeit.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.