"Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions."

-- Evgeny Morozov

#Smart Quotes #Technology Quotes #Data Quotes

“If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.”
“My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.”
“There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.”

Source : Yasmina Khadra (2005). “The Attack”, Nan A. Talese
“Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.”
“She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.”
“There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.”
“Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.”
“The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.”

Source : Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.8, Penguin

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