"We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value."

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Source : "Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man?". Book by Marshall McLuhan, p. 11, 1964.

David Sarnoff

#Way Quotes #Sin Quotes #Modern Quotes

“It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.”
“A good stylist knows that and is not going to push you to wear something that you're not comfortable with.”
“If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.”
“The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at night, frequently without benefit of roads, in company with kilted men armed to the teeth, and sharing a horse with a wounded man. At least we were not set upon by highwaymen, we encountered no wild beasts, and it didn't rain. By the standards I was becoming used to, it was quite dull.”
“You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end.”
“Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.”
“This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed.”
“I'm used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I'm comfortable at all with them.”

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