{"quotes":[{"text":"What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing.","author":"Willem Lange","tags":["disappointment","dry-humor","humor","new-england","perplexing","pessimism","wry"],"id":69839,"author_id":"Willem+Lange"},{"text":"From the very beginningperplexing and wanderingfrom one ocean to anotheran everlasting wander.","author":"Rixa White","tags":["beginning","everlasting-wander","illusion","ocean","perplexing","rixa-white","silentaria","wandering","what-s-real"],"id":374929,"author_id":"Rixa+White"},{"text":"Casting a curious gaze down on planet Earth, extra-terrestrial beings could well be forgiven for assuming that we humans are programmed in every move we make, by a palm-sized, oblong, slab of glass. More perplexing than that, who on earth could convince them otherwise ?","author":"Alex Morritt","tags":["artificial-intelligence","artificial-life","artificiality","assume","assumed","assumption","assumptions","assumptions","automaton","backward-step","backwards","big-brother","brain","brain-drain","brainwashed","brainwashed-generation","brainwashed-society","brainwashing","cell-phone","cell-phones","cellphones","contrary","conviction","convince","convinced","convinced-that-we-re-living","convincing","convincing-ability","convincing-others","curiosity","curiosity","curious","deskilled","despair","despair","device","device-set-up","device-sync","devices","dumb-people","dumbing-down","dumbness","earth","earth-citizen","earth","earthlings","earthly-possessions","earthly-task","earthly-things","evolution","evolutionary-process","extraterrestrial-life","extraterrestrials","fake-friends","fake-people","forgive","forgiveness","future-prediction","future","futuristic","galactic","galaxies","galaxy","glass","glass-half-full","glass-slab","global-warning","globalisation","globalization","governed","homo-sapiens","homogeneity","homogenous","human-condition","human-nature","human-regression","human-revolution","human-weakness","humanity","humanity-and-society","humanoid","humans","humor","humor","humour","humourous","humourous","impersonal","impersonal-world","intellect","intellectual-capacity","intelligence","intelligence","intelligent-design","laugh-at-yourself","life-beyond","life-lesson","life-on-earth","life-on-other-planets","life-philosophy","life","losing-it","losing-yourself","lost-generation","lost-souls","machine","machine-autonomy","machine-man","manipulate","manipulation","manipulation-of-others","manipulation-of-the-masses","manipulation","manipulative","manipulative-people","mankind","mobile","mobile-app-development","mobile-device","mobile-phone","mobile-phones","mobiles","monitoring","move","move-backward","move-forward","movements","moves","neanderthal","neanderthal-marries-human","oblong","obsessive-compulsions","obsessive-compulsive-disorder","obsessive-interests","other-world","other-worldly","other-worlds","otherworld","overrun","palm","palms","perception","perception-and-reality","perception-of-life","perception-of-others","perception-of-reality","perceptions","perplexed","perplexing","perplexity","persuade","persuasion","persuasive","persuasiveness","planet","planet-earth","planetary","planetary-exploration","planetary-shift","powers-of-persuasion","prediction","predictions","programmed-to-receive","programmers","programming","programming","programming-your-mind","quotable","quotable","quotation-collections","of-the-day","about-life","on-life","quotology","regression","reversal","reverse","reverse-worlds","robot","robot-world","robotic","robotic-humans","robotic-machinery","robots","satire","satire","satirical","satirical-humor","satirical","skill","skill-sets","skills","skills","slab","slate","slave","slave-to-the-machine","slavery","slavery","society-denial","society-problem","society","subservience","subservient","telcos","telecommunications","telecoms","to-the-contrary","tongue-in-cheek","universal-truth","universal-truths","universe","universe","universe","virtual-cubicle","virtual-reality","virtual-world","watcher","watchers","watching","worry","worrying","worrying-about-the-future"],"id":432767,"author_id":"Alex+Morritt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}