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# Weekend Words: Glass
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/weekend-words-glass/
- Published: 2014-02-02T15:00:07.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:33:56.000Z
- Description: This week came the announcement that Google has teamed up with the country’s largest vision-care company in a deal that will offer subsidized frames and prescription lenses for Google Glass, a move that may hasten the popularity of wearable computers.
- Author: Weekend Editors
- Tags: Opinion, Weekend, Weekend Words, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1)

![glass](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/01/glass.jpg)

Sébastien Stoskopff, “Still-Life of Glasses in a Basket” (1644). Oil on canvas, 52 x 63 cm. Musée de l’Oeuvre de Notre Dame, Strasbourg. (Image via Web Gallery of Art).

This week came the announcement that Google has teamed up with the country’s largest vision-care company in a deal that will offer subsidized frames and prescription lenses for Google Glass, a move that may hasten the popularity of cyberwear. “One obstacle that remains,” however, as [reported](http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303277704579348030488305004?ref=hyperallergic.com) in *The Wall Street Journal*, “will be convincing consumers the glasses aren’t just a niche product for nerds.”

> “Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.”  
>  
> **—William Shakespeare, *King Lear***

> “A reformer is a guy who rides through the sewer in a glass bottom boat.”  
>  
> **—Mayor Jimmy Walker**

> “Like many of the Upper Class  
> He liked the Sound of Broken Glass.”  
>  
> **—Hilaire Belloc, *New Cautionary Tales***

> “I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.”  
>  
> **—Janeane Garofalo**

> “Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”  
>  
> **—Jonathan Swift, *The Battle of the Books***

> “And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire.”  
>  
> ***—Revelation***

> “Men seldom make passes  
> At girls who wear glasses.”  
>  
> **—Dorothy Parker**