“solitary golfers struck him as a squirrelly, self-involved breed, like hermits or fly fishermen.”
― Henry, Himself
― Henry, Himself
“Churchill said that we shape our buildings, and afterward our buildings shape us. We made machines to help us think, and now the machines think for us.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“Already in 1877, Robert Louis Stevenson called busyness a “symptom of deficient vitality,” and observed “a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation.”
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
“These days, the old rules no longer apply, but new ones have yet to be written.”
― The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More
― The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More
“The average estimate implies that when your income increases by 10 percent, your CO2 emissions increase by 9 percent.”
― Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
― Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
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