You ever think about how bad we had to fuck up to create a world where robots taking all the jobs is somehow a bad thing.

My children's school is missing certain subjects due to lack of teachers, the roads are full of potholes, the sidewalks littered with trash, buildings are gray and ugly and decrepit, people on the streets need food and shelter and care, the frigging planet is cooking and desperately in need of new kinds of housing, heating, transportation, entertainment—wherever you look there's work to be done; real, productive, meaningful, community-building work; and there are no jobs!! What's up with that? 1% of my country has as much money as the entire bottom 50% and no one's paying for work!! They just sit on the cash like dragons atop a pile of gold!! Best system my ass.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

When an employer interviews a prospective candidate, the employer typically forms a quick first impression and spends the rest of the interview seeking information that supports it.

900 children die per day because they don't have access to clean water. I put it in a machine to make little clouds in my room so my throat isn't scratchy when I sleep at night.

The commission on the Sistine Chapel was 3000 ducats. The tomb of Pope Julius II was 10,000 ducats.

I think that the point of the story is not really about how often Holden complains but what and how he complains.

To me a great companion to this story is The Great Gatsby. On the surface the characters are shallow and annoyingly coy with their intentions. They seem to have no point - hell their lives are pointless, soaked in apathy and liquor.

Underneath all that is fear. Fear of rejection, fear of the unknown, fear of failure, and fear of oneself. I always felt bad for Holden because underneath his tough and bitter facade is a child alone in a world that cares nothing for him.

On the Catcher in the Rye

We believe that most of our days are unremarkable; but it’s only because we can’t remember them.

Sex-cynicism and race-pessimism, of course, often travel in tandem.

Ovce provedu čitav život plašeći se vuka, a na kraju ih pojede pastir.

Not all those who wear the name of villain, are truly evil men. Not all those who are respected as noble men, are worthy of the name. Many are those who wear a false mask of benevolence to hide their treachery and the wickedness of their true selves.

Sve naše nevolje dolaze otuda što nismo spremni da umremo od gladi.

Lawrence Katz, an economist at Harvard, has a term for this: “retrospective wait unemployment,” or “looking for the job you used to have.”

“It’s not a skill mismatch, but an identity mismatch,” he said. “It’s not that they couldn’t become a health worker, it’s that people have backward views of what their identity is.

Many from the generation that hated & bullied 'nerds' in HS in the 80s & early-90s (and perpetuated anti-nerd hate) are now the same anti-intellectuals on social media calling people 'elitists' & 'snobs' for speaking like they're informed or educated.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

In my view, if you’re a journalist and Orwell isn’t one of your heroes then something’s gone wrong.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Ništa se ne dešava jer niko ništa ne shvata.

Mihiz je jednom rekao za Srbe, a mislim da bi se to moglo primeniti i na druge, da smo mi sami sebe okupirali. Jer lako je Česima koje su okupirali Rusi, oni će jednog dana da izađu, ali šta mi da radimo.

Vlast pripada onome ko gospodari vanrednim stanjem.