Jenn Martinelli Blogging in Boston

I just said, "It's the future, man," and Rob said, "It is the future. We just can't afford it."

We were talking about how the world's fastest plane can fly 20x the speed of sound which is the equivalent of going from the east coast to the west coast of the U.S. in 10 minutes.

Crazy!

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children are smart.

H.L. Mencken

This is an old favorite of mine, and probably over-quoted, but I love it, so:

You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: ‘This is beautiful.’ That is Architecture. Art enters in.

Le Corbusier

This is one of the most perfect things I have ever read on Twitter.

@robreed: If the U.S. was always so willing to trade freedom & personal liberties for security we never would have declared independence from England.

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I would like you all to know, that versions of these same things still regularly come out of Rob Reed's mouth:

List of notable Rob Reed quotes

Will his wisdom never end?

I want people to know that almost everything that concerns them in their daily lives is of no consequence whatsoever. Nothing and nobody is really important,so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the canal, jump into one of those supermarket trolleys, race ‘round the supermarket and steal Mars bars and, y’know, kiss kittens and sit on the back of bread vans.

Whatever makes people happy they should just do it, ‘cos time is a mere scratch and life is nothing

Morrissey via my friend, S.

I also sort of dedicate this to Heather Rose

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Carl Sagan

Thanks, S., for the quote.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Mark Twain

I'm a bad boyfriend, I'll give you that. But at least I'm a decent human being, unlike everybody else.

Rob Reed

Basically the reason people talk is so they can lie. Otherwise it wouldn't be necessary.

Rob Reed