"No new choices are introduced by raising the specter of disaster. These become opportunities for swearing new allegiance to technology. The solution is to discover new technologies that will correct and modify the harm either potentially or already caused by present technologies."

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Source : "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". Book by Donald Phillip Verene, 1997.

Donald Phillip Verene

#Technology Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Choices Quotes

“We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.”
“Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.”
“It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.”
“The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror”
“I've worked hard with my body, just in case someone needs me to play third or short. I'm happy to go back to short, it's my natural position. I'm here to help and here to do whatever the manager wants me to do.”
“...'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts...”
“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
“The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.”

Source : Joseph LeConte (1896). “Evolution: Its Nature, Its Evidences, and Its Relation to Religious Thought”

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