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A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and read more
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color read more
Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust, if thou seest dust.
That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust, if thou seest dust.
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was.
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was.
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs read more
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. read more
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.
The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to read more
The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.
