"We are products not of our technologies, but of our choices about how to use them."

-- Mal Fletcher

#Technology Quotes #Choices Quotes #Use Quotes

“My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitudeâ€¦”
“The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.”
“Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.”
“There's another little vision in my life, going into a restaurant in New York years ago: All the women are sitting in their little strapless dresses with their cleavage, and there's this one woman in a sleeveless turtleneck and pants. And I can tell you that every man in that restaurant looked at that woman's arms. It was hypnotizing when everything was covered up. Just the face, the conversation - and you see the arms. And the arms and the hands become an obsession. I like that.”
“One thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a movie - was that the rule is that animated movies don't work unless they're Disney movies for kids. Unless they're family movies.”
“I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that.”
“Once our people get themselves into a position to make policy, they cease being our people.”
“For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.”

Source : Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.32, Papadakis Publisher

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