Die Maschinen tun mehr, als bei der Partnersuche zu vermitteln. Sie zerlegen ihre Nutzer in Schokoladenseiten, sexuelle Vorlieben, politische Ansichten etc. und stellen somit Kontakt zwischen virtuellen Informations-Profilen her, die den Menschen dahinter als Objekt der Begierde ersetzen.

Jahrhunderte lang trug die Vorstellung romanischer Liebe den Keim der Revolution gegen Vernunft und Konventionen in sich sowie die Furcht vor dem Unbekannten. Der Spätkapitalismus zieht ihr diese beiden Krallen und verwandelt sie in ein Spiel, das nicht weniger abgekartet ist als jede Zwangsheirat.

Das Internet schreibt heute ganze Liebesgeschichten: Vom Kennenlernen über den Seitensprung zur organisierten Racheaktionen und anschließenden Seelsorge bis hin zur Scheidung – für alles gibt es einen Anbieter und noch einen, der für uns die verschiedenen Anbieter vergleicht.

Datingportale sind Maschinen, die durch Ein- und Ausschlussverfahren die Partnersuche regulieren sollen – unverbindlich und ganz individuell. Da bei so viel Kontrolle aber nichts dem Zufall überlassen werden darf, gehören Maskerade und Spionage zum digitalen Datingalltag.

Datingportale setzen allein in Deutschland seit 2006 jedes Jahr mehr als 100 Millionen Euro um, Tendenz steigend. Verständlich, dass Großkonzerne um die Gunst der Nutzer buhlen, deren Daten bei Übernahmegeschäften den Besitzer wechseln. Wer mitliest, weiß niemand.

Warum sich beschweren? Vertrauen in den Zufall ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser. Und schließlich bleibt alles beim Alten: Die einen suchen schnellen Sex, die anderen die Liebe fürs Leben und wie immer gibt es keine Garantien. Somit hätte sich wieder einmal alles geändert, damit es bleibt, wie es ist.

Come in the gym like you’re going to war.

I'd love to be able to dominate cycling in general, not just one event.

That's the thing: You'll lose your legs, your athleticism, but if you can shoot - definitely from 3 - you can play into your high thirties.

I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.

Globalization is a fact because of technology because of an integrated global supply chain because of changes in transportation. And were not going to be able to build a wall around that.

I like the idea of subversively communicating with people... so that you make people see things in different ways.

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.

Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.

I think it's important to find humor anywhere you can. In real life, with the darkest, scariest, most intense moments, if you can find something funny, that's good.

Somebody told me once it takes an Americana song five minutes to say what a country song says in three - so I try to write country songs. But really, all good music is just soul music.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

I never go to the gym - I can't be doing with it. But I run up and down the stairs, wash my feet in the basin to keep supple, and I don't eat things that have a pulse.

After my first week of no wheat, my stomachaches were gone, my mucous cleared up, and I felt incredibly energetic. My headaches were also less frequent and less severe, and I had lost 3 pounds, most of it swelling and water weight my body had been holding onto as part of its response to the wheat products in my diet.

I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently.

I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.