rgreen’s most recent Quotables

“I am George Bodenheimer,” he said to Jobs. “I run ESPN.” Jobs just looked at him and said nothing other than “Your phone is the dumbest f**king idea I have ever heard,” then turned and walked away.

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect... but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly... timey-wimey... stuff.

Oh that was a clever lie, you idiot! Anyone could tell that was a clever lie!

Our bodies break down, sometimes when we're ninety, sometimes before we're even born, but it always happens and there's never any dignity in it. I don't care if you can walk, see, wipe your own ass. It's always ugly. Always. You can live with dignity, we can't die with it.

People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint.

When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Good artists copy, great artists steal

This survey of American beliefs showed that Americans, at a rate of between 48 and 51% don’t believe in evolution. Which is, like, half. And of top of that 51% a further 38 to 40% of Americans believe that biological evolution has occurred but believe that it was initiated by, and has since been kind of administered by, um, god, leaving a very small percentage of Americans who are right.

If you open your mind too much, your brains will fall out.