"Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense."

--

Neil Postman

#Revolution Quotes #Computer Quotes #Nonsense Quotes

“The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.”
“I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.”

Source : Washington Allston (1993). “The Correspondence of Washington Allston”, p.13, University Press of Kentucky
“As long as your intention is pure, and you know what you're in it for, then you're alright. And I'm in it because I enjoy it. I take it seriously... real seriously. I mean I could sit and talk all day about the music.”

Source : "Bittersweet Motel", www.imdb.com. 2000.
“I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.”
“We as a culture are forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very, very deep connection and contact with nature. You canâ€™t divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.”
“I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.”
“Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.”

Source : Roger Williams, John Cotton, John Murton (1848). “The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed: And Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered”, p.9
“Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.”

Source : Remark at a National Woman's Rights Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1855. "Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings" by Miriam Schnier, 1972.

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