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.

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.

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.

Fish always stinks from the head downwards.

Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.

Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far ... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes.

Let heaven fill your thoughts instead. Because when you do everything on earth gets placed in its proper perspective.

Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf its confessor.

My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.

I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings.

I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality.

Most people think of leaders as being these outgoing, very visible, and charismatic people, which I find to be a very narrow perception. The key challenge for managers today is to get beyond the surface of your colleagues. You might just find that you have introverts embedded within your organization who are natural-born leaders.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.

We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.

I absolutely love Canada, and I wouldn't live anywhere else. It's half American and half European, and I really enjoy that. And the people are just fantastic - nicer than any people in the world.

Don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

Not only is there more to life than basketball theres a lot more to basketball than basketball.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?

I usually have eight to 10 meetings a day and travel 150 days a year..._It sounds crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.