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One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one's information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms.
fernando j. "corby" corbató— p. 79 (On Building Systems That Will Fail (1991))
Call me bored, but don't call me boring.
larry wall— Usenet article <199705101952.MAA00756@wall.org> (1997)
"I was on an airplane last year when a talk show began playing on the TVs. I decided to start narrating for the people, which is a really great game if you're ever bored enough. I realized a time will probably come when television will watch us if we're watching it, if that hasn't already happened, figuratively or literally. It sounded like some sort of pseudo-Big Brother nightmare, so I wrote it down."
brandon boyd— His influence on writing the song Talk Shows on Mute
"It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn a good game." "I am pleased that you were not wholly bored," Martin said. "Now will you tell me what you were talking about concerning the destruction of my species?" "Oh, that," Tlingel replied.
roger zelazny— Unicorn Variation (1982)
A tiny sun and moon spin around them, on a complicated orbit to induce seasons, so probably nowhere else in the multiverse is it sometimes necessary for an elephant to cock a leg to allow the sun to go past. Exactly why this should be may never be known. Possibly the Creator of the universe got bored with all the usual business of axial inclination, albedos and rotational velocities, and decided to have a bit of fun for once.
terry pratchett— Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters (1989)
"Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again. "So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking..."
J. K. Rowling— Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 21 (2007)
It is better that aged diplomats be bored than for young men to die.
Warren R(obinson) Austin— On soporifically lengthy debates at the United Nations.
Never to be bored, never to be frustrated, never to be alone.
GeorgeWildman Ball— Defining what John F Kennedy wanted from the presidency. President Kennedy (1993).
And moreover my mother taught me as a boy (repeatingly) 'Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources.' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
John originally John Allyn Smith Berryman— 1964 'Dream Song No.14'.
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
— 1962 Diary note, 26 Mar.
The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.
Douglas Coupland— "Transience Is Now Permanence & the Fate of the Middle Classes (Doomed)", in The Edge Annual Question — 2010: How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?[1], January 2010
She reinvents herself from album to album. I reinvent myself week to week. I get quite bored with things and I don't want to let down my fans.
lady gaga— On Madonna
— [2], May 30, 2009.
We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.
john w. gardner— Quoted in "Self Renewal" (1964).
I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop. At the time that I am bored or understand — I use those words interchangeably — another appetite has formed.
Robert Rauschenberg— Quoted in: Wendy Richmond (2009), Art Without Compromise, p. 136
I’m sitting here bored, … trying to remember that everything is a complete mystery.
james richardson— #489 (Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001))
He was just a young man who'd come to town on a donkey, bored to death or something, who'd taken advantage of the chance to be entertained by a small-town kid who was bored to death, too. That's the only way I could figure it out without accepting the general theory that he was crazy.
william saroyan— "Locomotive 38, the Ojibway" (1940)
It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, "In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous."
Andy Warhol— Andy Warhol's Exposures (1979) commenting on the nightclub "Studio 54", and his world famous quote.
I'm glad to say I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.
edgar degas— "Technical Details" (p. 70)
I think the hard thing about this job [stand-up] I mean, I think this part is great but that the traveling is y'know, 'cause 'cause I'm gone a lot from home and this time I'm out for three-and-a-half weeks without going home, and that's hard, to be gone three-and-a-half weeks 'cause then I have to ask my friends, "Would you mind going to the house and watering the plants, and turn some lights on and make it look like somebody's home, and make sure that the mobile over the crib isn't tangled or the baby's gonna get bored..."
ellen degeneres— Taste This
You can be bored with anything if you try hard enough.
samuel r. delany— Chapter 3 (p. 36)
It’s hard to be ignored When I look at you, you look so bored My baby, my darling, I’ve been taking a beating… Well alright (well alright) It’s okay (it’s okay) We all get the slip sometimes every day I’ll just keep it to myself in the sun In the sun
zooey deschanel— "In the Sun" - YouTube video
As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was something wrong with the story, so that's going to be no drawback as far as I'm concerned. "Good Lord, why am I so bored" "I know; it must be the plot developing harmoniously." So I often reply to myself, and there rises before me my special nightmare that of the writer as craftsman, natty and deft.
e. m. forster— Letter 104, to Forrest Reid, 19 June 1912
There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that’s the time for sex.
— Quoted in Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography (1964)
Kait was immediately bored. Children Kaitlin’s age possess no context; one video event is much like another.
robert charles wilson— Chapter 3 (p. 32)
The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.
— Douglas Coupland, "Transience Is Now Permanence & the Fate of the Middle Classes (Doomed)", in The Edge Annual Question—2010: How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?[1], January 2010
A Muslim will never get tired and bored of educating himself throughout his life.
— Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p.467
I'm so bored with it all.
— Who: Winston Churchill, before slipping into a coma and dying nine days later.
God, I'm bored.
— Harry St. John Philby, Arabist and writer, father of spy Kim Philby.
Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and bored.
Robert Byron— 1819-24 Don Juan, canto13, stanza 95.
