The word phobic has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing.... I hate computers. My hatred is entrenched, and I nourish it daily. I'm comfortable with it, and no community outreach program will change my mind.

Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

often fear new technologies and

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.

Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.

I am no fan of books.

I was no longer afraid. Not of important men, not of trustees and such; for knowing now that there was nothing which I could expect from them, there was no reason to be afraid.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.