Quotes About Critique

Duhamel calls the movie "a pastime for helots, a diversion for uneducated, wretched, worn-out creatures who are consumed by their worries a spectacle which requires no concentration and presupposes no intelligence which kindles no light in the heart and awakens no hope other than the ridiculous one of someday becoming a 'star' in Los Angeles.

The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, while the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Jobs's father had once taught him that a drive for perfection meant caring about the craftsmanship even of the parts unseen. Jobs applied that to the layout of the circuit board inside the Apple II. He rejected the initial design because the lines were not straight enough.

It's not something I want to judge Steve by.

For Nietzsche, the overman does not have instrumental value for the maintenance of society: he is valuable in himself because he embodies the state of being that has the only ultimate value there is; and society is censured insofar as it insists on conformity and impedes his development (cf. G. IX 44).

You have made Commerce a god that weighs on humanity like a twenty-four-pound boil on a man's back (117-118)

mortality is a living critique of the divine

ADDENDUM: SOMETIMES THE FUTURE IS BULLSHIT

[Of Coleridge:] An archangel a little damaged.

there's a big difference between being judgmental and making a judgment.

If his nose were a tail he would be the perfect image of a sow's rear end.

Worshipping God] is like fellating someone who intermittently stubs fags out on your head for no good reason. And we all know how unsatisfying that can be.

Here's a mystery for you. Renegade urban graffiti artist Banksy is clearly a guffhead of massive proportions, yet he's often feted as a genius straddling the bleeding edge of now. Why? Because his work looks dazzlingly clever to idiots. And apparently that'll do.

It would probably be uncharitable to call the look "neoclassical Georgian plus IBM taupe and gingerbread revival meeting in a dark alley for fisticuffs and insults." But there I go anyway. It wasn't my kind of joint. I

I think half the trees in the world are felled to make up the IIT entrance exam guides. Most of them are crap

While airports are particularly good places to hunt for Indian stupidity, many other Indian processes are retarded too.

About John Updike's Rabbit Run] The author fails to convince us that his puppets are interesting in themselves, or that their plight has implications that transcend their narrow world.

EDITOR... a bit of sandpaper applied to all forms of originality by the publisher-proprietor...

A harsh critique is a pen stab through the heart — and the resultant inkbleed.

Satire is merely pointing out that roses have thorns — and that we can't avoid pricks.

Judge: a law student who marks his own papers.

Democracy is a form of religion, it is the worship of jackals by jack asses.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

JUDGE, n A law student who marks his own papers.