It’s not that Millennials don’t believe some things are serious. We’ll make ‘It Gets Better’ videos or perform comedy for disaster relief. But sum up our lives in a phrase? The Importance of Never Being Too Earnest. Alexandra Petri Read Quote
Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves. Alexandra Petri Read Quote
The problem with technology, as with fashion, is that it’s impossible to be ‘in’ forever. Alexandra Petri Read Quote
Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any other. Yet this disregard for facts qua facts is intellectually crippling. Facts are the raw material of thought, and the knowledge of significant facts makes sophisticated thought possible. Alexandra Petri Read Quote
My goal is to be weirder than everybody else and hope that no one stops me. So far, no one has. Alexandra Petri Read Quote
I would say ‘competence’ actually might be slightly more important than passion. I understand that it is important to feel strongly about things, but give me a competent dentist over a passionate dentist any day, if only because something about the phrase ‘passionate dentist’ is deeply unnerving. Alexandra Petri Read Quote
Serious beliefs are awkward, especially religious ones. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with them, it’s just that people’s real, heart-felt, deeply held beliefs are, well, ‘not easy to handle or deal with, requiring great skill, ingenuity, or care’ – in a word, awkward. Alexandra Petri Read Quote
Some information is important, and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other. Alexandra Petri Read Quote
