Amanda > Amanda's Quotes

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“We’re creating new rules for typographical tone of voice. Not the kind of rules that are imposed from on high, but the kind of rules that emerge from the collective practice of a couple billion social monkeys—rules that enliven our social interactions.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

“Like how money is just squiggles on paper or on a screen until it determines whether you can eat lunch, words are just meat twitches until they determine whether you can get a job”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

“A videogame called Lost Memories Dot Net by Nina Freeman draws on Freeman’s own adolescent selfies and memories of the 2004 internet: you play as a fourteen-year-old girl designing her new anime fansite-slash-blog and IMing with her best friend about the boy they both have a crush on, in a tabbed interface that resembles an Internet Explorer theme from the era.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

“Many people in this group use hyphens or strings of periods or commas to separate one thought from the next (“i just had to beat 2 danish guys at ping poong.....& ..they were good....glad i havent lost my chops” or “thank you all for the birthday wishes - great to hear from so many old friends - hope you all are doing well -- had a lovely dinner”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

“But it’s important to be cautious about any attempt at Divination By Teenager.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

“When it came to anger, the results were mixed: sometimes caps increased the anger rating and sometimes it didn’t, a result which Heath attributed to the difference between “hot” anger (FIGHT ME) and “cold” anger (“fight me”).”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

“*bolding asterisks*”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

“The Library of Congress archives memes now, preserving things like the Lolcat Bible, Urban Dictionary, and Know Your Meme. It calls them, charmingly and also not entirely inaccurately, “folklore.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language