Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.
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Arthur C. Clarke
Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.
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James Rozoff
Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.
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Sherry Turkle
We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.
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Alberto Manguel
When an inscrutable technology becomes an invisible technology, we would be wise to be concerned. At that point, the technology's assumptions and intentions have infiltrated our own desires and actions. We no longer know whether the software is aiding s or controlling us. We're behind...
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Nicholas Carr
More Quotes By Laurie Anderson
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.
History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
And there was a beautiful view but nobody could see cause everybody on the island was saying look at me
You can dance. You can make me laugh. You've got x-ray eyes. You know how to sing. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>You're a diplomat. You've got it all. Everybody loves you. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>You can charm the birds out of the sky, But I, I've got one...
