Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Here's to Jack Kerouac

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
-Jack Kerouac

2 comments:

Chris said...

Actually, that quote is from the Apple "Think Different" add from the 90s... for some reason Kerouac always gets mis-attributed to it.

How about:
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”
... That's Kerouac

Cheers

Shannon said...

Oh woops...I had no idea! Thanks for the heads up Chris; I don't want to go around misquoting...cheers :)