“Hipster culture is not a counterculture. On the contrary, the neighborhood organization of hipsters—their tight-knit colonies of similar-looking, slouching people—represents not hostility to authority (as among punks or hippies) but a superior community of status where the game of knowing-in-advance can be played with maximum refinement. The hipster is a savant at picking up the [...]
He owns one of the largest beer companies in the U.S., and yet he drinks coffee out of Styrofoam cups—and then rinses the cups out so he can reuse them.
“Most people don’t know what a megabyte is. But they do understand when they get an alert telling them they’re about to go over their limit and incur additional fees.”
“Education should lead students out of poverty, not into it.”
“Oh, excuse me, please. You are getting a lot of value. This is not like a free lunch here. We just opened a data center in Buffalo, and in its first phase it has 50,000 servers. That is not cheap. So the very fact that you get all this great information is part of the [...]
“Focus more on friends and family, less on material goods.”
“The supplements, remedies and cereals that claim to strengthen immunity (and thereby protect you from colds) do no such thing. It would be one thing if by some magic they made your body produce antibodies to any particular virus. But they don’t.”
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
“It’s $50 to get a tattoo, and add a few zeros to get rid of it.”
“I’ll pay off the balance on my credit card and move on.”
“I have learned is how FANTASTIC I feel when my credit card bill is only $250 instead of $1250!”
