"The machine is a tool. But it is not a neutral tool. We are deeply influenced by the machine while using it."

-- Jacques Ellul

#Tools Quotes #Machines Quotes

“I'm like a plant, I reach for the sun...”

Source : FaceBook post by Carole King from Mar 08, 2015
“African-Americans were dispossessed of the land by being brought over here in slave ships, whereas Indians were on the land and fought literally wars against Europeans for control of that land. And that history of dispossession, you know, if you look at the treaties, it's very interesting. Everyone thinks that Indians were ripped off in their treaties. If you look at the first round of treaties from about 1800 to the Civil War, tribes secured over 150 million acres. I think it may have been 144 million acres in those treaties. That's a large amount of real estate.”
“It is critical that the world captures every last bit of energy efficiency, if we are to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep below dangerous rises in temperature. I am pleased that this important new study shows how information and communication technology can play an essential role in saving energy. Now we need more and effective government policies that reward such action and penalize delayed responses.”
“Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.”
“We're far from having too much horsepower...my definition of too much horsepower is when all four wheels are spinning in every gear.”
“There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging, No I never saw them at all, Until there was you.”

Source : Meredith Willson, Franklin Lacey (1958). “Libretto for Meredith Wilson's the music man: book, music and lyrics”
“Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.”
“For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.”

Source : Theodore Bikel (2014). “Theo: An Autobiography”, p.436, University of Wisconsin Pres

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