251 Quotes by Hank Green

Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren.

Their voice came out of the watch, slow and then all at once, like ketchup.

I’m not much older now than I was then, but in a lot of ways, obviously, I’m a different person. So it is easy for me to recognize that I made some good decisions and some bad ones. But it’s telling that, with this, I knew it was a bad idea even then but I still couldn’t control myself. Knowing something is a bad idea does not always decrease the odds that you will do it. If I had examined my motivations on this one, I probably wouldn’t have liked what I found, so I didn’t.

We are creatures who need meaning, but we're abandoned in a universe full of meaninglessness. So we cry into the wilderness and get no response. But we keep crying anyway.

El poder només és capaç de desenvolupar tot el seu potencial quan es percep com a diferència entre el poder de la gent que t'envolta i, encara més important, el poder que tenies anteriorment.

A friend of mine once told me that, no matter how much you proofread, the first time you open the final version of your book, you will find a typo on the very first page you look at. Ugh.

We can blame those people, but the only thing a mass murder 'means' is that we've made it too easy to kill.

You grant companies access to your attention so that they can alter your choices in exchange for entertainment. You identify with groups and grant them the ability to choose for you which problems you will be most concerned about. You listen to a friend when they care about something, and then you care about it too. One of the most powerful traits of your system is how ardently you believe in your individuality while simultaneously operating almost entirely as a collective.

The most sophisticated software in existence is tasked with figuring out how to keep you from leaving a website.