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American writer 1928–2004Related quotes
Maddox (1978) American internet writer
The Best Page In The Universe. http://maddox.xmission.com/ <br class="br">The Best Page in the Universe
“Why do I always bang my head against the wall
So sick and tired of doing, doing everything wrong”
Beef Bonanza punk rock musician in The Bones
Flatline Fever
Lyrics
“Politics is absolutely hopeless. That’s why everything has gone wrong.”
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
From 1980s onwards, Norie Huddle interview (1981)
Context: This is not a visible revolution and it is not political. You’re dealing with the invisible world of technology.
Politics is absolutely hopeless. That’s why everything has gone wrong. You have ninety-nine percent of the people thinking “politics,” and hollering and yelling. And that won’t get you anywhere. Hollering and yelling won’t get you across the English Channel. It won’t reach from continent to continent; you need electronics for that, and you have to know what you’re doing. Evolution has been at work doing all these things so it is now possible. Nobody has consciously been doing it. The universe is a lot bigger than you and me. We didn’t invent it. If you take all the machinery in the world and dump it in the ocean, within months more than half of all humanity will die and within another six months they’d almost all be gone; if you took all the politicians in the world, put them in a rocket, and sent them to the moon, everyone would get along fine.
“Every thing is done halfway in Peru, and that is why everything goes wrong.”
Mario Vargas Llosa book The Time of the Hero
The Time of the Hero (1963)
“Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.”
Chuck Klosterman book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Mine
“She's wrong about absolutely everything, but she's wrong within normal parameters.”
P. J. O'Rourke (1947) American journalist
Endorsing Hillary Clinton for President over Donald Trump, May 7, 2016 http://www.npr.org/2016/05/09/477339063/conservative-author-pj-orourke-reluctantly-backs-clinton on NPR
