David Sasaki

“When each successive generation grows up, we look down on the next generation, as though we have forgotten what it feels like to be young. Then we call the next generation immature. When most adults think about their own youthful indiscretions, they do so with a wink and a laugh. But when they think about today’s generation doing something similar, they ring the alarm bell about the decline in morality in “kids these days.”
― David Yeager, 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People: A Groundbreaking Approach to Leading the Next Generation—And Making Your Own Life Easier

“You will never touch the hearts of others, if it does not emerge from your own.”
― Alexander C. Karp, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West

“The cultural industry will always have the means and might to dominate our mind-space, and a major point of “indie snobbery” was to provide counterbalance.”
― W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change

“Ehrenreich wrote evocatively of the strange silence of gyms, a place where people gather together in close quarters but barely speak to one another except to negotiate access to machines. This, she observed, is because the primary relationship at play is not between separate people working out, but between the person working out and themselves as they wish to be, their body double.”
― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World