Kia Shiru > Kia's Quotes

“Bits have unique properties, then, that we can use to our advantage: they’re super-small, super-fast, easily acquired and created and copied and shared in near-infinite quantity, protected from the ravages of time, and free from the limitations of distance and space. In practice, though, bits reveal several paradoxes: they’re weightless, but they weigh us down; they don’t take up any space, but they always seem to pile up; they’re created in an instant, but they can last forever; they move quickly, but they can waste our time.”
― Mark Hurst, Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload

“It’s far too rarely stated that the technology industry is not in the business of making people productive. It is only in the business of selling more technology.”
― Mark Hurst, Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload

“The overload makes users less productive and more stressed; thus, there’s a need for some solution. Passively ignoring the problem won’t work, since bits are still heavy, even if we pretend not to notice.”
― Mark Hurst, Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload

“Bit literacy means letting the bits go; anything else perpetuates the problem.”
― Mark Hurst, Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload

“I welcome questions. I hate assumptions.”
― Red Haircrow

“There is no fine print in Thou shall not kill" Lysander to Santino”
― Katie Salidas, Immortalis Carpe Noctem

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Every guy got morning wood. It didn’t mean anything that Chris had woken with a boner that morning while camping. And the fact that he’d been rubbing said boner against Peter’s hip? Well… Chris hadn’t been awake enough to know what he’d been doing.”
― Daisy Harris, College Boys

“The problem,” Peter tried to muster his indignation, “is that I don’t want to be dating a closet case.”
― Daisy Harris, College Boys

“Fully immersive’? More like ‘forced on a set path’.”
― E. Engberts, BASE Status: Online

“metal-bubble girls. We rock your world and do it quietly from behind our VR systems because we’re too scared to show up at venues.”
― E. Engberts, BASE Status: Online

“There was something compelling about the different choices people made about who they were going to play as.”
― E. Engberts, BASE Status: Online

“Shout out to the people on the LitRPG Forum, and especially their Discord server, where they seem to not only put up with my oversharing of my process of writing (and editing in the final days) but also somehow trust me enough to put me in a position of power as a mod! You guys keep me sane!”
― E. Engberts, BASE Status: Online