Fran Lebowitz

"Science has done absolutely nothing about noise. The worst design flaw in the human body is that you can't close your ears. The reason you can't close your ears is, if a lion was coming, you had to wake up. Today no lions are coming. Beeping trucks are coming. I read the other day that the guy who invented the beep when trucks go backward, he died. I thought: Of course - he dies, I have to listen to it."

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Source: The Wired Diaries 2000. www.wired.com. January 01, 2000.

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Fran Lebowitz

Fran Lebowitz

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Fran Lebowitz is a prominent American author and social commentator known for her incisive critiques of culture and society, particularly in New York City.

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