Power and profit structures're out of cahoots with current technology. Aware of new inventions, corporations put them aside, waiting for competitive reasons until they're obliged to use new gimmicks.

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

  2. There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

  3. Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.

  4. All great art is a form of complaint

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