Girl Gone Viral Quotes

“We're storytellers. We don't just want to listen to perfect stories. We want to create them out of our imperfect lives.”
― Arvin Ahmadi, Girl Gone Viral

“Humans are experts in sharing. It started with cave paintings and evolved into books, tweets, virtual reality -- who knows what's next. But the pieces of ourselves that we share are just that. Pieces.”
― Arvin Ahmadi, Girl Gone Viral

“People fall prey to patterns, yes. We are driven by numbers and comparisons, but often, it's to our detriment. There's always going to be someone more successful than you, someone more liked than you, with more views than you.”
― Arvin Ahmadi, Girl Gone Viral

“If you take away one lesson from my class, let it be this. Humans are experts in sharing. It started with cave paintings and evolved into books, tweets, virtual reality — who knows what's next. But the pieces of ourselves that we share are just that. Pieces. We're complicated beings who hardly understand our own selves, and that's precisely why we put those experiences out into the world. To find our place in it.”
― Arvin Ahmadi, Girl Gone Viral

“This is the power of VR... to make sense of life. To provide a space where you can share your experiences for the better.”
― Arvin Ahmadi, Girl Gone Viral

“It doesn't matter how impressively we design our avatars, or how many millions of views we have in the virtual world. This life is all we have.”
― Arvin Ahmadi, Girl Gone Viral

“Artificial intelligence, virtual reality -- these are al wonderful things. But they were invented by humans. They will not save us, nor will they destroy us. They are tools. There must always be a human touch.”
― Arvin Ahmadi, Girl Gone Viral

“It's hard, gathering facts about a missing person. It's even harder when people just tell you what they think you need to hear, shining a rose-tinted light on the past -- when in reality, you just want the truth.”
― Arvin Ahmadi, Girl Gone Viral

“Fairness is a rubber band, and the longer you stretch it -- the more you rely on its elasticity -- the more it stings when it snaps.”
― Arvin Ahmadi, Girl Gone Viral

“A bunch of VR nerds want to hang out after curfew and they can’t just use WAVEchat? Come on, people. It’s not 2020.”
― Arvin Ahmadi, Girl Gone Viral