quotes about Inquiring Minds

“If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.”

Source : "Battle of the Clipper Chip" by Steven Levy, www.nytimes.com. 1994.

“Take pictures of what you fear.”

“I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.”

“It's unwise to presume on the future... It makes good sense to plan for tomorrow today, but there's a problem with thinking we can always do later the good we can do now.”

“If you eat chicken, maybe you're on one level. If you wear a mink coat, maybe you're on another level. But if you wear cosmetics, cosmetics that are tested on animals, then you're just unconscious. Really, my message is simple. It's a message of compassion. In this world that is spinning madly out of control, we have to realize that we're all related. We have to try to live harmoniously.”

“People spend an enormous amount of time in their inboxes, compulsively checking, and it's slow, distracting, and inefficient. It's almost a counterproductivity tool.”

“There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.”

“Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child. Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.”

“The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.”

“Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.”