Comment Quote by Jaron Lanier

Some of my colleagues are surprised by how little personal interaction I've had with "my" authors, but I don't translate to go fishing for…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

I'm not a big fan of that kind of stuff - of Twitter and Facebook. I just feel like I'm a very private person…

— Ksenia Solo

Social networks are an incredible new tool which enables me to speak directly to large numbers of people. It is at the cutting edge…

— Helen Zille

It's ironic, but true, that in this age of electronic communications, personal interaction is becoming more important than ever.

— Regis McKenna

Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and…

— George Ayittey

I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel…

— Fran Kranz

“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.

— Wallace Stevens

There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

— Anton Chekhov

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

— Benjamin Disraeli

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

— Edward Abbey

When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days,…

— Washington Irving