Ivan Orlov
IT-specialist
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«It’s hard to be a god, but I’d still really like to try»
You can’t divide people into good and bad. You might as well start dividing them into murderers and not-murderers. If you look at it, there’s a beast inside every one of us. We should just learn to live with it and take it easy. Be easy, it’s far more rewarding!
You can forgive someone who has betrayed you, but you can never restore the trust.
Journalists can turn a tiny little rumour into a huge sensation. Yellow press is food for those who like to fill their heads with rubbish. I don’t belong to them, because going through dirty laundry of people who I don’t even know doesn’t quite lie within the sphere of my interests.
At the moment, I’m dedicating most of my time to the development of my own Internet site. As soon as I’m done with that, I want to fling myself into advertising. I find it quite exciting, even though it’s all just a way of pulling the wool over everybody’s eyes. On the other hand — you’ve got to earn money somehow (laughs).
One has to be honest with himself and those around him.
I’ve always enjoyed things that involved manipulating an audience: anything from a school play to an elaborate publicity stunt.
To relax, I used to sometimes lie down on the floor, put massive speakers by either side of my head, and listen to music like that. You can try this, but I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone.
It would be really cool to launch some kind of a virus into the Internet, and just see what’s going to happen!
It’s hard to be a god, but I’d still really like to try.
I don’t want to conquer the whole world. I don’t mind settling for whatever I can get my hands on. Why would I need the world, if Eurasia is just enough (laughs)?
I’ll feel happy when I’ve accomplished the goals I’ve set for myself. Then feel miserable for a short while, because I’ve achieved everything I wanted, and then set some new goals and start moving towards them. Happiness is a very volatile substance, it’s not like you can live in a state of constant happiness, however, there’s nothing wrong with experiencing it regularly. Sounds funny: “I regularly feel happy!”
I want to travel the world. I want to know everything!
The other day, I was thinking about family, whether I want it or not: kids, wife, marriage, dying together, and stuff like that. And the answer I came to was that I’m not ready for this yet. It’s not that I’m afraid of the responsibility, I just don’t need it all right now.
I can’t be sure that today, for example, I’m not going to fall in love, and tomorrow, too, but I can think about doing it on Friday, maybe. However, I’m absolutely sure that I’d never promise anything to a woman if I don’t have complete confidence in it.
I’m very jealous by nature. They say it’s a sign of insecurity… Well, that’s what they say, but so what? I’m perfectly secure, period! Suppose, if you think you’d do anything for a person, naturally, you expect the same from them. That’s it.
If you cheat on someone — you betray them.
If a girlfriend forces me to choose between her and my friend, she’ll be out that very moment. That’s for sure. Girlfriends come and go, but friends stay with you.
Because I myself am a very open and outgoing person, I don’t like people who are reticent and duplicitous.
Telling white lies is, generally, not the right thing to do, but it also depends on the situation. Say, why does he need to know that his wife was screwing around with some Turkish guy when she went to Turkey on holiday? Is it really going to make anyone feel better?
We all know that the morning after a heavy night comes a terrible hangover. However, for some strange reason, I don’t see people quitting drinking left, right, and centre (laughs). That’s one of the life’s numerous paradoxes.
I want to live long enough to see everything the world has to offer. I don’t know, how long it’s going to take exactly, maybe about 60-70…centuries will cover it just fine (laughs).
Every time you decide to do something, bear in mind, that whatever it is, it will affect your future life!
The way things are going, eventually, we’ll all be living in a matrix. We used to write letters and post them. Now there’s the Internet. And trust me, it gets worse. It will get to a point where you won’t even have to get out of bed to have any experience you want imitated for you, say, having a barbeque with a friend out in the wood. There will, probably, even be the smell of roasted meet coming out from underneath your bed somewhere. It’s a wrong, but inevitable course.
I can’t imagine my life without music. If I had a chance to award a Nobel Prize to someone, I’d give it to some band, Tool, for example.