"Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant."

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Source : Harold A. Innis, Daniel Drache (1995). “Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change: Selected Essays”, p.323, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Harold Innis

#Cutting Quotes #Technology Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Our human situation no longer permits us to make armed dichotomies between those who are good and those who are evil, those who are right and those who are wrong. The first blow dealt to the enemy's children will sign the death warrant of our own.”
“The next Google or Facebook will come from somewhere other than Silicon Valley.”
“The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.”
“My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses.”
“But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it.”
“Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.”
“Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.”

Source : Stanley Kunitz, Kent P. Ljungquist (2013). “Conversations with Stanley Kunitz”, p.69, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.”

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