The Warehouse Quotes

“It wasn’t good to mess around with knees. Knees were stupid. Like a ball and two sticks held together with rubber bands. It took way less torque than most people thought to screw up a knee.”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse

“That’s the thing about freedom. It’s yours until you give it up.”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse

“I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process. —U.S. President Benjamin Harrison, 1891”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse

“One of the lessons he’d learned in prison was: You don’t look for the handoff. You look for the side-eye. That frightened glance, the tension that builds up in muscles. The badge reflecting off frightened eyes. Prisoners were professionals at subterfuge. You had to become an expert not on seeing the hidden things, but on seeing the people who were doing the hiding.”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse

“We live in a state of entropy. We buy things because we are falling apart and the newness makes us feel whole. We are addicted to that feeling. That is how Cloud controls us. The worst part is, we should have seen it coming. For years we lived with stories about this. Brave New World and 1984 and Fight Club. We celebrated these stories while ignoring the message. And now, how come you can order anything in the world and it’ll show up at your door within a day, but if you try to order a copy of Fahrenheit 451 or The Handmaid’s Tale, it takes weeks, or it doesn’t show up at all? It’s because they don’t want us to read these stories anymore. They don’t want us to get ideas. Ideas are dangerous.”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse

“la libertad es tuya hasta que renuncias a ella.”
― Rob Hart, La corporación

“The worst part is, we should have seen it coming. For years we lived with stories about this. Brave New World and 1984 and Fight Club. We celebrated these stories while ignoring the message. And now, how come you can order anything in the world and it’ll show up at your door within a day, but if you try to order a copy of Fahrenheit 451 or The Handmaid’s Tale, it takes weeks, or doesn’t show up at all? It’s because they don’t want us to read these stories anymore. They don’t want us to get ideas. Ideas are dangerous.”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse

“The worst part is, we should have seen it coming. For years we lived with stories about this. Brave New World and 1984 and Fight Club. We celebrated these stories while ignoring the message. And now, how come you can order anything in the world and it’ll show up at your door within a day, but if you try to order a copy of Fahrenheit 451 or The Handmaid’s Tale, it takes weeks, or doesn’t show up at all? It’s because they don’t want us to read these stories anymore. They don’t want us to get ideas. Ideas are dangerous.”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse

“28 percent. Two years later? Three percent. That figure keeps me warm at night.”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse

“Can you not appreciate the peril of making me angrier than I already am?”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse

“The balloon burst, everything about him, everything inside just spilling to the floor in one slippery mess. So he turned around and left, went back to Oak, went to his room, fell onto his futon, and stared up at the ceiling. And he thought about the other thing Zinnia had said. The thing about freedom.”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse

“Gibson paused. Turned to her. Gave her another look, up and down. “When elephant trainers catch a baby elephant in the wild, they tie it to a tree. That baby elephant fights and thrashes to break free, but it’s not strong enough. Within a couple of days, it gives up. So even as the elephant gets bigger, it doesn’t believe it can break the rope. And then you get a full-grown elephant tied to a tree with a piece of rope it could snap with a simple swing of its leg. It’s called learned helplessness. Everything here is built on people who don’t think the rope will break. Which means the most dangerous thing in the world for my business model is someone who recognizes how fragile the rope really is.”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse

“Remember, freedom is yours until you give it up,”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse

“Дело в том, что работу надо заслужить. Работа - не то, что вам дают просто так. Таков американский девиз: стремись к величию сам, а не кричи о том, что у кого-то что-то есть.”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse

“Jackpot! I’m not the kind of guy who needs fancy things. I don’t need some desk that changes heights and makes my coffee and tells me I look nice. All I need is a phone, a computer, a pad, a pen, and a place to sit. End of list.”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse