Quotes by Jon Ronson

Jon Ronson

A strange thing happens when you interview a robot. You feel an urge to be profound: to ask profound questions. I suppose it’s an inter-species thing. Although if it is I wonder why I never try and be profound around my dog. ‘What does electricity taste like?’ I ask. ‘Like a planet around a star,’ Bina48 replies. Which is either extraordinary or meaningless – I’m not sure which

Dog

Profound

Stars

As I glanced at the phraseology of the research report, dull and unfathomable to outsiders like me, I thought that if you have the ambition to become a villain, the first thing you should do is learn to be impenetrable. Don’t act like Blofeld—monocled and ostentatious. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.

Ambition

Hate

Writing

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.

Eccentric

People

Stories

At the end of our conversation she (Martha Stout) turned to address you, the reader. She said if you’re beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you’re feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one.

Anxiety

Feelings

Mean

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

Chaos

Institutions

Names

But on the extremist side I didn’t get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.

Rejection

Sides

Talk To Me

Capitalism, perhaps at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.

Inspiration

Manifestation

Motivation

Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

Political

Religious

Ruins

Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it’s about 7 am to noon. For other people it’s overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times.

People

Trying

Writing

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I’ve started seeing it everywhere.

Bias

Confirmation

Seeing

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Academia

Accepting

Acting

Adventure

Aids

Alcohol

Ambition

America

Anxiety

Avalanches

Banking

Believe

Bias

Bipolar

Blessing

Book

Boundaries

Breakfast

Chaos

Childhood

Compounds

Confirmation

Crazy

Creating

Differences

Different

Dog

Draconian

Eccentric

Empathy

Ends

Faces

Fearless

Feelings

Force

Four

Fruitcake

Globes

Goats

Harder

Hate

Hero

Home

Hurt

Ideas

Ideology

Impact

Insanity

Inspiration

Institutions

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Quotes by Jon Ronson

Jon Ronson

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.

At the end of our conversation she (Martha Stout) turned to address you, the reader. She said if you’re beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you’re feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one.

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

But on the extremist side I didn’t get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.

Capitalism, perhaps at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.

Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it’s about 7 am to noon. For other people it’s overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times.

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I’ve started seeing it everywhere.

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