Jeffrey Sconce quote: "People were talking about virtual reality, and some were saying one day we will download our consciousness and live forever in computers. And it struck me as just a load of crap. I wondered why we tell ourselves these fantastic stories, and I found it has been happening since the telegraph."

Sadistic is the only word to use for some of these shows.
JEFFREY SCONCE

The networks have gotten into trouble when trying to show nudity, so the other avenue to get viewers...
JEFFREY SCONCE

TV had always been the forbidden bad fruit in academia,
JEFFREY SCONCE

They are always terrorized and chased by sadists and psychos,
JEFFREY SCONCE

I understand the networks' position,
JEFFREY SCONCE

The study resonated because I was writing at a time when people were making amazing predictions abou...
JEFFREY SCONCE

You see people taking storytelling more seriously, ... Shows like 'Lost' and '24' have complex narra...
JEFFREY SCONCE

are much more artistic and vibrant now than the cinema.
JEFFREY SCONCE

For a long time, no one ever wanted to admit that television was anything but this horrible, horribl...
JEFFREY SCONCE

But ignoring TV is like trying to ignore a 2-ton elephant.
JEFFREY SCONCE

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons thei...
JEFFREY KLUGER

I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical natur...
JEFFREY JONES

Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making the...
JEFFREY KLUGER

The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destro...
JEFFREY SACHS

Advertisers don't want to be ignored, and they are drunk on our data, which is what Google and o...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN

Great people have great values and great ethics.
JEFFREY GITOMER

The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, unders...
JEFFREY SACHS

Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise a...
JEFFREY SACHS

There are times between five and seven when this house is like a bowling alley, but it's reinspi...
JEFFREY TAMBOR

I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some k...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.
JEFFREY GITOMER

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, ...
JEFFREY GITOMER

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestr...
JEFFREY KLUGER

The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your st...
JEFFREY GITOMER

I think most of my heroes are not the traditional types. A guy I was fascinated with was Buster Keat...
JEFFREY TAMBOR

I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different ...
JEFFREY SKOLL

Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a p...
JEFFREY GITOMER

The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do i...
JEFFREY SACHS

I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.
JEFFREY DONOVAN

What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really l...
JEFFREY DONOVAN

I grew up in an upper-middle-class town with a population around 12,000. My high school held around ...
JEFFREY GITOMER

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
JEFFREY TATE

Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping ...
JEFFREY SATINOVER

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We hav...
JEFFREY SACHS

Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. The desire and ability to press on has and a...
JEFFREY FRY

Many people see themselves as a rose, when all they are is just a prick.
JEFFREY FRY

My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that ...
JEFFREY KLUGER

The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because bo...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN

My website, my email magazine, my blog, my books, my corporate seminars, and my public seminars all ...
JEFFREY GITOMER

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

If you like a person at their worst, you will love them at their best.
JEFFREY FRY

You know that you're a true friend when somebody says "But what about that wart on the end of his no...
JEFFREY MICHAEL

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you e...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ...
LORD JEFFREY

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
LORD JEFFREY

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning...
JEFFREY ARCHER

It seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones rooted in fr...
JEFFREY BELL

Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on r...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Jus...
JEFFREY KOTTLER

Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are at risk every day of their lives.
JEFFREY MONTGOMERY

Good design can't fix broken business models.
JEFFREY VEEN

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.
FRANCIS JEFFREY

I can't say enough about the guts and the talents of Amazon. They're so agile, they're s...
JEFFREY TAMBOR

Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakne...
JEFFREY KLUGER

I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambie...
JEFFREY TATE

Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as A...
JEFFREY KLUGER

We use social media as an adjunct to my total media/market outreach.
JEFFREY GITOMER

As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a l...
JEFFREY KLUGER

In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acou...
JEFFREY TATE

It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daugh...
JEFFREY KLUGER

The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than wh...
JEFFREY KLUGER

The job of the Attorney General is very specific. My roll, as the legal adviser, is to defend the co...
JEFFREY CHIESA

A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it conscio...
JEFFREY KLUGER

My readers and my audiences have turned into my followers. They are more than interested in what I h...
JEFFREY GITOMER

Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all i...
JEFFREY GITOMER

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagi...
JEFFREY KATZENBERG

It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to l...
JEFFREY KLUGER

I don't mind that I am not necessarily a household name, because I think my characters have outs...
JEFFREY WRIGHT

In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there i...
JEFFREY SACHS

The key in mastering any kind of sales is switching statements about you and how great you are and w...
JEFFREY GITOMER

In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.
JEFFREY GITOMER

There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and stri...
JEFFREY GITOMER

There's no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you - unless your potion ...
JEFFREY GITOMER

Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich wou...
JEFFREY KLUGER

I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps yo...
JEFFREY WRIGHT

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to e...
JEFFREY TAMBOR

Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.
JEFFREY KLUGER

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ...
FRANCIS JEFFREY

It was tragic how life had sucked her down to the bones, all her spontaneity her laughter and freedo...
BELINDA JEFFREY

As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, me...
JEFFREY KLUGER

Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out
of cigarettes.
JEFFREY MCDANIEL

We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are p...
JEFFREY DEITCH

Wisdom comes when you realize the pain, people, or problems life used to produce you now push you.
JEFFREY FRY

My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Re...
JEFFREY SKOLL

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believe...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

Overspending is as certain a part of the holiday season as overeating. But pushing away from both th...
JEFFREY KLUGER

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I sti...
JEFFREY ARCHER

The head coach is the chemist.
JEFFREY LURIE

I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

We Greeks get married in circles, to impress upon ourselves the essential matrimonial facts: that to...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

And so now, having been born, I'm going to rewind the film, so that my pink blanket flies off, my cr...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; an...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

The chief executive officer is also the chief sales officer. He or she is responsible for the succes...
JEFFREY GITOMER

Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to ...
JEFFREY FRY

Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served u...
JEFFREY KLUGER

Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use...
JEFFREY KLUGER

Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited tr...
JEFFREY KLUGER

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an...
JEFFREY KLUGER

Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort o...
JEFFREY KLUGER

All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neuroch...
JEFFREY KLUGER

It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what ...
JEFFREY KLUGER

Kids whose puberty begins too soon face not just psychological risks, but physical ones too, with an...
JEFFREY KLUGER

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This migh...
JEFFREY TATE

Stories are great, but at the end of the day, you remember that moment and that moment and that mome...
JEFFREY BELL

Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is t...
JEFFREY TOOBIN

In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up ...
JEFFREY SACHS

I've been in three sort of... I mean, I'd say they're groundbreaking series, if only bec...
JEFFREY TAMBOR

Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make ...
JEFFREY KLUGER

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line wor...
JEFFREY BROWN

Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be ...
JEFFREY KLUGER

Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town s...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN

I actually got thrown into my Bar Mitzvah because my teacher, my Cantor, did not tell me that they w...
JEFFREY TAMBOR

I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where t...
JEFFREY KLUGER

I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle,...
JEFFREY TATE

I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater hero...
JEFFREY TAMBOR

Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it....
JEFFREY WRIGHT

If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding...
JEFFREY JONES

When I was 14, my dad came home one day and told us he had cancer. It was looking pretty bad. And I ...
JEFFREY SKOLL

Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny,

the way monogamy is funny, the way<...
JEFFREY MCDANIEL

One thing I can give and still keep is my word.
JEFFREY FRY

Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Tr...
JEFFREY FRY

'Gay panic' is insidious. It is corrupt because it appeals to a public that is used to discarding an...
JEFFREY MONTGOMERY

Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but...
LORD JEFFREY

Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group tha...
JEFFREY KLUGER

There are popular celebrities, there are unpopular celebrities and then there are the walking dead. ...
JEFFREY KLUGER

Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.
JEFFREY DEITCH

Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.
JEFFREY DEITCH

Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at ...
JEFFREY JONES

Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.
JEFFREY RASLEY

Courtney Vance and I are college classmates, weirdly enough. We're both Harvard class of 1982. C...
JEFFREY TOOBIN

Entrepreneurship does not build character; it reveals character.
JEFFREY FRY

Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.
JEFFREY DEITCH

Shine brightly, so you can help those who have not found their path a way through the darkness.
JEFFREY FRY

You know that thing where you're trying to do the crossword puzzle, and you're trying to fit...
JEFFREY TAMBOR

At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes...
JEFFREY KLUGER

The Quiet World

In an effort to get people to look
into each other’s eyes more, JEFFREY MCDANIEL

We recognize that the typical house built in the 1920s may be smaller than what people want today.
BOB JEFFREY

The scary thing is that over time, as the downtown builds and you start to lose that fabric, once it...
BOB JEFFREY

We'll notify everyone who was signed up.
BOB JEFFREY

After recovering from decades of conflict, Afghanistan needs economic support.
BOB JEFFREY

Wildly successful sites such as Flickr, Twitter and Facebook offer genuinely portable social experie...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN

With consumers buying two smartphones for every desktop computer they purchase, the demands, challen...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN

Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an ...
JEFFREY KLUGER

A short story can be packed with meaning and impact, with the concentrated density of a collapsed st...
JEFFREY THOMAS

There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.
JEFFREY KLUGER

Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily,...
FRANCIS JEFFREY

A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distrib...
JEFFREY KATZENBERG

But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make ...
JEFFREY ARCHER

At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my ...
JEFFREY ARCHER

As I say, my real interest is in writing.
JEFFREY ARCHER

And so I gave up everything for it - time, energy, research - I dropped everything and so yes False ...
JEFFREY ARCHER

And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a...
JEFFREY ARCHER

Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.
JEFFREY ARCHER

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
JEFFREY ARCHER

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writ...
JEFFREY ARCHER

We all make mistakes but one has to move on.
JEFFREY ARCHER

Our 1999 (U.S.) GDP forecast was cut to 0.7 percent from 1.8 percent,
JEFFREY APPLEGATE

The risk to this new forecast is down, not up.
JEFFREY APPLEGATE

If our outlook is correct, very rich valuations for the best tech stocks will persist, ... Maybe for...
JEFFREY APPLEGATE

That does not make us, or our clients, very happy.
JEFFREY APPLEGATE

Fiscal policy is still too tight for current circumstances.
JEFFREY APPLEGATE

I don't know what it was. I don't think we played very well for some reason. We had some injuries. B...
JEFFREY ANDERSON

Sakura has a rich online history and tradition in Japan and we are tremendously excited to be in par...
JEFFREY ANDERSON

We're thrilled to have developed a game that appeals to massively multiplayer players, as well as fa...
JEFFREY ANDERSON

This is a very, very dark day, not just for this family, but for all of us to know that nothing is r...
JEFFREY ANDERSON

In spite of our hard work and the launch of [Asheron's Call 2 expansion pack] Legions, AC2 has reach...
JEFFREY ANDERSON

Why he went off the road we don't know,
JEFFREY ANDERSON

In this part of the country, people are so appreciative of what we do, ... It means so much when som...
JEFFREY ANDERSON

We're very excited to be working with Midway on this title. Midway's extensive North American distri...
JEFFREY ANDERSON

These are probably extreme cases. More often, structures are calibrated so that assets pay down whil...
JEFFREY ALLEN

We lost one (on the road), and we could have lost this one if we didn't hold them on defense. We hav...
JEFFREY ALLEN

I really wasn't even thinking about getting into the end zone. I was just trying to get upfield and ...
JEFFREY ALLEN

After the interception, we wanted to stick with what was safe at the time.
JEFFREY ALLEN

A child gets vaccinated and soon after, autism symptoms emerge. The apparent cause-and-effect is und...
JEFFREY KLUGER

A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digest...
JEFFREY KLUGER

The honor of being able to play Maura is transformative. I'm 70 years old. I should be in a read...
JEFFREY TAMBOR

When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like...
JEFFREY KLARIK

When I was growing up, there was a character on TV; there was a character stereotype: it was personi...
JEFFREY TAMBOR

The code core of the 2001 browser upgrade campaign was the first instance of capability detection in...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN

Inspiration comes from all different places.
JEFFREY KATZENBERG

I think everyone needs to know that I steal biscotti on Delta Airlines. People need to know that.
JEFFREY TAMBOR

There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a publi...
JEFFREY KLUGER

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.
JEFFREY ARCHER

The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.
JEFFREY FRY

Trust is tough since it involves that quixotic mix of integrity, vulnerability, and intimacy. But tr...
JEFFREY FRY

It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the l...
JEFFREY BERNARD

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and l...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

Your customers are judging every aspect of every transaction and rating everything, from friendlines...
JEFFREY GITOMER

I like files. I like editing a CSS file without necessarily having to edit an HTML file. I like fixi...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN

There was one television in the living room, and we all sat around on Sundays and watched Ed Sulliva...
JEFFREY TAMBOR

As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do w...
JEFFREY KLUGER

I've never actually participated in role-playing games myself, except on one occasion when a cow...
JEFFREY THOMAS

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.
FRANCIS JEFFREY

If people aren't going to talk about your product, then it's not good enough.
JEFFREY KALMIKOFF

We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this...
JEFFREY ROWLAND

People were talking about virtual reality, and some were saying one day we will download our consciousness and live forever in computers. And it struck me as just a load of crap. I wondered why we tell ourselves these fantastic stories, and I found it has been happening since the telegraph.

Jeffrey Sconce

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