quoto’s most recent Quotables

If Bill Hicks was looking down on Texas right now he would not be a happy man. He'd be scolding you worse than me.

US politics is a joke to anyone outside the reach of Fox News.

It brings out one's inner Bill Hicks ladies and gentlemen.

[on US politics] There's something Borgia-like about all this. Where is the moral compass of these people?

Washington DC is a Walmart of brothels.

[Berlusconi's life] is like an incredible Caligula soap opera...If you can imagine a dozen Monica Lewinskys, a kind of pagan harem...

Craig Venter is a force of nature - don't get in his way!

Exxon is the personification of corporate evil.

Microbes aren't in the bible.

What makes the world work, what makes things better, is passionate virtuosity.

Teaching in design school vs. simply designing stuff is disgusting incompetence and passionate virtuosity.

The passage of time turns cyberpunks into design professors.

I criticize stuff that doesn't exist yet.

If you've done five or six of these [SXSW], let me give you some advice. You got to go to Europe.

For four days, SXSW is the world capitol of the web.

I'm interesed in things that have one foot in fantasy and a toe in reality.

[on SXSW] Everyone involved should bathe in glory. And have a beer.

Usually I don't talk about politics, I'd much rather talk about technology and really cool ideas. But I think it's important to talk about politics.

I want to start a conversation with you about the next chapter of one-for-one. What’s inside this box is not as important as what it represents. It represents that we are no longer a shoe company, we are a one-for-one company.... [Its unveiling] will be our first step in meeting the rest of those needs around the world.

Who is Tom? There is no Tom. If we sell a pair of shoes today, we give away a pair of shoes tomorrow. Originally we thought of “Tomorrow’s Shoes,” but I could only fit “TOMS” on the label. I had no idea everybody would want to meet him. There is no Tom; it’s an idea for a better tomorrow.