Quinn Norton (born May 1973) is an American journalist, essayist, photographer, and blogger covering hacker culture, Anonymous, Occupy movement, intellectual property and copyright issues, and the Internet.
Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing.
There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes involving computers? How do we make concrete, or at least reconstructable in the minds of our readers, the terrible, true passions that cross telephony lines? Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing.
Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it.
You don't owe the internet your time. Your time is yours, whatever time you give the internet is a gift. The internet does not know this, and it will never learn. Time is the most precious thing you have. More than money, or land, or prestige, or any valuable thing you can think of, a life is measured in time. The sooner you walk away from a useless fight, the more of it you get to have.
Jay McInerney
Albert Collins
Gary McCord
Don Johnson
Charlie Jane Anders
Alger Hiss
Jim Gilmore
Gotye
Charles Fort
Ellar Coltrane
Andy Cole
Cedric Benson