"I remember reading about a court case where a man tried to stab a judge with a pencil. There are Google pages full of similar instances around the world. It's obvious that the pencil lends itself to precisely that kind of use. It's not as lacking in dominance as you might think. I have an article on the fallacy of the designer intent because a lot of designers think they can design uses into technology. You can't do that. I use the pen, I make the mark, but the pen is also using me. The pen could be said to be allowing these kinds of marks. I can't do just anything with the pen."

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Don Ihde

#Reading Quotes #Technology Quotes #Men Quotes

“The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.”
“The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean.”
“If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.”

Source : John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1855). “The History of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.326
“Early on, people invested in me because of my letters and then, somehow, after they invested, they stopped reading them.”
“If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today”
“A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa.”
“Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort from its accumulated reserves and current revenues. Almost all war-making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens who have other uses for their resources.”

Source : Charles Tilly, Arthur L. Stinchcombe (1997). “Roads from Past to Future”, p.149, Rowman & Littlefield
“My face on every coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved. My flag is forever waved, by the grateful people I have saved.”

Source : Don McLean (2008). “The Legendary Songs of Don McLean (Songbook)”, p.82, Hal Leonard Corporation

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