“But the Infantile part of me is insatiable - in fact its whole essence or dasein or whatever lies in its a priori insatiability. In response to any environment of extraordinary gratification and pampering, the Insatiable Infant part of me will simply adjust its desires upward until it once again levels out at its homeostasis of terrible dissatisfaction.”

- David Foster Wallace in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again 

We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
- William Gibson in Distrust That Particular Flavor

I believe that in our culture of simulation, the notion of authenticity is for us what sex was for the Victorians—threat and obsession, taboo and fascination. 
- Sherry Turkle