"Innovation, sending civilians to outer space, mapping the mind, curing cancer - all these things, they're great. Obviously these same companies are also making a lot of money and accumulating a lot of our data at the same time, which seemed like independent things and one is beneficial and one is problematic for us as individuals, but in the rush of the new I think a lot of the philosophical, ethical, moral, and legal questions don't get asked in time. It's not in our nature to pause, sit, meditate, question, debate. We move forward. Technology generally answers itself with more technology."

Source : Source: www.empireonline.com

James Ponsoldt

#Cancer Quotes #Moving Quotes #Philosophical Quotes

“Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.”
“Thrift is that habit of character that prompts one to work for what he gets, to earn what is paid him; to invest a part of his earnings; to spend wisely and well; to save, but not hoard.”
“Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.”
“Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.”
“I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.”

Source : Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.
“Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.”
“Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.”
“In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore.”

Source : Rose George (2013). “Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate”, p.10, Metropolitan Books

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