“It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.”
Source: Jeeves in the Morning
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“Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch. ”
“And that’s why I don’t like putting on-off switches on Apple devices.”
Quoted by his biographer, Walter Isaacson http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/steve-jobs-in-the-end-he-didnt-like-the-off-switch/61586?tag=nl.e589
2010s
Context: Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don’t. I think it’s 50-50 maybe. But ever since I’ve had cancer, I’ve been thinking about it more. And I find myself believing a bit more. I kind of – maybe it’s ’cause I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn’t just all disappear. The wisdom you’ve accumulated. Somehow it lives on, but sometimes I think it’s just like an on-off switch. Click and you’re gone. And that’s why I don’t like putting on-off switches on Apple devices.
“That guy is so quick, he can switch off the light and get into bed before the room is dark.”
Gibson making an assessment on fast winger Andrew Ettingshausen during his summary of a match on television.
“I wish there was an on & off switch for my brain. I think too fucking much.”
22 April 2014 https://twitter.com/alka_seltzer666/status/458559591698014208
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“Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.”
“Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.”
“People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.”
"Bobby Crawford"
Cocaine Nights (1996)
Context: Town-scapes are changing. The open-plan city belongs in the past — no more ramblas, no more pedestrian precincts, no more left banks and Latin quarters. We're moving into the age of security grilles and defensible space. As for living, our surveillance cameras can do that for us. People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.