455 Quotes by Dave Eggers

Director of Ensuring the Future

Ty swept his arms around, encompassing everything around them, the vast campus above. “All this. The fucking shark that eats the world.

I was trying to make the web more civil. I was trying to make it more elegant. I got rid of anonymity. I combined a thousand disparate elements into one unified system. But I didn’t picture a world where Circle membership was mandatory, where all government and all life was channeled through one network.

That’s what’s new. There used to be the option of opting out. But now that’s over. Completion is the end. We’re closing the circle around everyone—it’s a totalitarian nightmare.

If things continue this way, there will be two societies - or at least I hope there will be two - the one you're helping create, and an alternative to it. You and your ilk will live, willingly, joyfully, under constant surveillance, watching each other always, commenting on each other, voting and liking and disliking each other, smiling and frowning, and otherwise doing nothing much else.

I am the Olympics.

Americans are born knowing everything and nothing. Born moving forward, quickly, or thinking they are.

You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?

Your memory has always been given to opportunistic revision.