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From Quotes by Tom Hodgkinson
- Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.
- Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the…
- Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?
- Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this…
- As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would…
- Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a…
- I originally welcomed the mobile phone, as it seemed to me that it would enable you to work from anywhere. On the mobile, who was…
- The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill…
- Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can…
- ...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an…
- A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that…
- Festivals are fun for kids, fun for parents and offer a welcome break from the stresses of the nuclear family. The sheer quantities of people…
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