"Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs."

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Erik Brynjolfsson

#Technology Quotes

“I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.”
“Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”
“One of the most beautiful things about 'Game of Thrones' is it's told from so many different points of view, and these characters can convince you that what they're doing is right. But they're only showing you a bit of the picture, and when you see it from another character's point of view you may switch allegiances.”
“What I did was not for sexual pleasure. Rather it brought me some peace of mind.”
“These European White Men, then, with civilization in their blood and in their destiny, crossed the Atlantic and set up a new civilization on a bleak and rock bound coast. It was the White Men who drove north to Alaska and west to California; the men who opened up the tropics and subdued the Arctics; the men who mastered the African Veldts; the men who peopled Australia and seized the gates of the world at Suez, Gibraltar and Panama.”

Source : "Nature's Eternal Religion" by Ben Klassen, (Ch. 2, Paragraph 3), 1973.
“Little things are big.”
“The seas are the heart's blood of the earth.”

Source : Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”
“We enter the bardo, the intermediate state after #â€Ž death , just as we enter dream after falling asleep. If our experience of #â€Ž dream lacks clarity and is of confused emotional states and habitual reactivity, we will have trained ourselves to experience the processes of death in the same way.”

Source : Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.82, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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