“All things get older in time. But this is not transformation.”

“A drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts.”

“Just as the factory farming system that produces and delivers our food shapes what we eat, the dynamics of our media shape what information we consume. Now we’re quickly shifting toward a regimen chock-full of personally relevant information. And while that can be helpful, too much of a good thing can also cause real problems. Left to their own devices, personalization filters serve up a kind of invisible autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our own ideas, amplifying our desire for things that are familiar and leaving us oblivious to the dangers lurking in the dark territory of the unknown.”

“The legitimation of education by schools tends to render all non-school education an accident, if not an outright misdemeanor.”

“No better exercise is known for strengthening the muscle at the sides of the waist, — that is, external oblique muscles of the abdomen, and the iliac muscle, which is just above the hip-bone, — than sculling, standing up in the boat, with the feet well apart, and at every turn of the oar letting the upper part of the body sway well from the hips to each side alternately.”