"Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and constant inconvenience as the wrong people gain access to information, as one wastes time convincing the inquisitors that one is in fact innocent, or as one struggles to untangle the errors of the errant machine."

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Source : Victor C. Ferkiss (1969). “Technological Man: The Myth and the Reality”

Victor C. Ferkiss

#Struggle Quotes #Mean Quotes #Loss Quotes

“Take nothing for granted. Not one blessed, cool mountain day or one hellish, desert day or one sweaty, stinky, hiking companion. It is all a gift.”

Source : Cindy Ross (1987). “Journey On the Crest: Walking 2600 Miles from Mexico to Canada”, p.36, Mountaineers Books
“I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night.”

Source : Nelson Gidding, Robert Wise (1980). “The Haunting: Screenplay”
“Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.”

Source : Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“[Reagan] was the best president in this era, as he had the perfect temperament for the job.”
“I found the one, he changed my life, but was it me that changed?”
“There is no clear distiction between white supremacy and the multicultual mindset.”

Source : Source: gawker.com
“If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.”
“I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.”

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