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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)
"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 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)
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.
Tallulah never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
Anita Loos— 1968 Eulogy at Tallulah Bankhead's funeral. Reported in the NewYork Times,17 Dec.
An English peer of the right sort can be bored nearer to the point where mortification sets in, without showing it, than anyone else in the world.
Plum— 1915 Something Fresh, ch.3.
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.
l'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes that were being used all the time at the time, and I kept thinking there's bound to be something else. I could hear it sometimes but I couldn't play it. ... I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive.
charlie parker— On his personal stylistic breakthrough, quoted in Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955) edited by Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro, . p 354
Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.
pierre stephen robert payne— The Roman Triumph, p. 121
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.
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
kenneth clark— Ch. 1: The Skin of Our Teeth
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)
Now he was far from bored but feeling many of the same stresses that had caused him to retire from active duty in the first place. Was it possible to find a station in life with just the right level of interest? Was it possible to be normal without being someone’s dupe?
neal stephenson— Sokolov, Day 2
Now, most of you are probably going to be totally bored out of your minds on Christmas day, and here's the perfect distraction. Test 2.6.15-rc7. All the stores will be closed, and there's really nothing better to do in between meals.
linus torvalds— Source: LKML 2005.12.24
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)
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
— Kenneth Clark, Ch. 1: The Skin of Our Teeth, Civilisation (1969)
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.
