Volker Grassmuck famous quotes

The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.
-- Volker Grassmuck

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I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and 'search' is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along with the risk.

There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.

After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.