Clive Thompson Quotes

More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.

Clive Thompson

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WorkPeopleComputersMysteryNever

The fun of the Super Bowl is the week leading into it; once it's actually played, the story dies down very, very quickly.

Joe Posnanski

FunStoryWeekDownSuper BowlBowl

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.

Joan Rivers

LifeMotherWomanManMeBlame

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

John Milton

TruthWorldNeverBirthHimHer

I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'

John Hodgman

GoodHollywoodSquareCenterWould

I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.

Andy Rooney

EyesTimeGameHockeyIceToo Much

I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.

John Rhys-Davies

ThinkMorePassportCollectionsMost

The scale of revenue growth is unprecedented. If you look back over history, whether you're looking at the railway robber baron era or the 1920s or the '50s or the '70s, it used to take a long time for a company to get to the point where they had tens of millions of dollars of revenue. It was almost never an overnight phenomenon.

Stewart Butterfield

GrowthHistoryTimeLookingLook

To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

Jason Gann

FunnyMedicineThinkLongYouDown

I've always preferred comics that really rely on visual storytelling. It's what makes comics special. Otherwise, you're better off reading a novel.

Cliff Chiang

ReadingBetterYouStorytellingOff

One of the reasons I never went into pro football was because I wanted my kids to grow up around an academic environment. And that's exactly what we did.

Ara Parseghian

FootballGrowEnvironmentNeverUp

Obviously, we think it's important to make sure that firearms do not get in the hands of people who are criminals, convicted felons or adjudicated as mentally ill.

Asa Hutchinson

PeopleThinkHandsImportantSure

There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.

William H. Macy

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