Quotes from Adam Conover

At any point, the sum total of human knowledge is not, 'Here's the world as it is perfectly,' it's, 'Here's the best we know so far and we're always willing to be proven wrong.'

Security theater is the idea of putting on a big show of security in order to make people feel safe. That's why the TSA screens everything and takes your stuff away.

Your date of birth is a security point for identity theft.

That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.

I think that at the end of the day correcting misinformation and questioning what we think we know as a habit of mind is incredibly important.

Generational thinking has always been reductive and condescending.

You have to accept that other people are not going to live their lives like you, and you have to find a way to achieve your goals while they are still existing and living their lives according to their choices.

I guess what's happened is that I've a little bit let go of the idea that we can reach everybody. Certain people... the informational world they live in, it's so distorted that it's hard to get through.

All my life I have been the guy who always says, 'Oh I think I read a thing about that and you know it's actually true about that is yada yada.' The reaction that I got when I would do that from people when I did that was not always good.

It's the reaction I've gotten my whole life: that I learn something and try to tell people in conversation, but when I tell them, they are annoyed.

I don't claim to have all the answers; after all, I'm just a comedian who reads a lot.

Wading River was a gorgeous place to grow up and I feel very lucky there was a wood by our house where I could go explore when I was a kid.

You can't solve climate change by everybody individually buying a more efficient car and throwing out less stuff. You have to make national changes through national policy.

No one who hired Siegfried & Roy was shocked when they brought a tiger onstage. So you shouldn't be shocked if you book a comedian and she points out that the emperor has no clothes.

I think people are better for having learned, even if they aren't happier.

Comics are regularly asked to perform for impossible rooms. They're called 'hell gigs.'

We have a more intimate relationship with food than with almost anything else we buy, so people are with very good reason concerned about the real story behind what they eat.

I find that a really restful, relaxing way to spend time on a plane is to listen to an audiobook while drawing.

The direction of the country isn't controlled by one person on top making decisions. It's a mass movement of people making a lot of individual decisions that add up to something broader.

I think that people are more eager to learn about food than almost every other topic.

When something actually shocks me, that's when you know it's a great topic.

There's no replacement for having a burning desire to talk about something: 'I know this and other people need to know!'

Some people are writers and don't ever want to be on camera, some people act and not write - I like writing words for myself to say.

It's only when you get towards the top that people start throwing you down a rope. It's like a law of nature, and it makes me think a lot about what my responsibility is to folks who are further down the hole where I was - how I can offer them help and how I can try to help change the structure of American society.