"Humans are the reproductive organs of technology."

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Source : Kevin Kelly (2010). “What Technology Wants”, p.268, Penguin

Kevin Kelly

#Technology Quotes #Organs Quotes #Humans Quotes

“Data quality is corporate America's dirty little secret.”
“I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what that tells you. People who look like... they're waiting for a sandwich that's never going to come. I don't know what's wrong with me.”
“Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the less mysterious. . . . Space is, after all, solid, monolithic. . . . Time, on the other hand, is a hostile element, truly treacherous, I would say even against human nature.”
“Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me.”
“Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.”
“Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his parts, being so strange and paradoxical, that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature.”
“Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.”
“One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It's just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy.”

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