Wasting time Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““It is named the "Web" for good reason.”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Wasting time
“The web is just a device by which bad ideas travel around the globe at the speed of light.” — P.J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“It's not called the world wide web for nothing. You can get sucked in and trapped there".” — Louise Welsh Copy Share Image
“The web is a dangerous place for a mind begging to slack off and be distracted by nonsense.” — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
I invented the Web just because I needed it, really, because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
“The Web had turned out to be less the new home of Mind than the new home of Business. The” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“A website is a window through which your business says hello to the world.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.” — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“the Web transformed the Internet from an intellectual meeting-house into a commercial enterprise.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
There are a lot of problems with the Web, but there are a lot of great things about it, too. — Mike McCue Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet… — Robert Cailliau Copy Share Image
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Make sure he doesn't have a girlfriend or you'd be wasting time and efforts on something useless. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile.… — Alan Kulwicki Copy Share Image
“[T]he people who are close to Allah worry so much about wasting time that they call themselves to account for every breath they spend… — Ethar El- Katatney Copy Share Image
Trying to find this industry's tendency to celebrate the physical is a waste of time. So I'm happy to play the game. But I… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it? — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Life is too short to waste time harboring bad feelings about anyone. Forgive, forget, then move on! — Denise Austin Copy Share Image
My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel that flipping… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
“Whenever one starts meditating, the mind becomes rebellious. It starts all types of arguments: “What are you doing, why are you wasting time? Use… — Osho Copy Share Image
“So, whenever you find yourself putting forth great effort without success, you're trying to force something that won't fit under the circumstances. That's a… — Tony Vigorito Copy Share Image
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
When someone is delusional, there is no point wasting time responding to their delusions. — Kourtney Kardashian Copy Share Image
