"We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place,"

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Sherry Turkle

#Technology Quotes #Needs Quotes #Rejects Quotes

“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.”

Source : Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”
“There are two kinds of people in the world Ms. Lane: those who survive no matter the cost and those who are walking victims.”
“The tears that fall from the eyes of a truthful Believer, out of the fear of the Lord, and, then, roll down his face, however little they are, even of the size of a fly [i.e. just one drop], shall prevent the Fire of Hell from touching his face.”
“We have come to discover what we suspect is a new political mindset emerging among a younger generation of political leaders socialized on Internet communications. Their politics are less about right versus left and more about centralized and authoritarian versus distributed and collaborative.”

Source : Jeremy Rifkin (2011). “The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World”, p.139, Macmillan
“When the people clamor to be shielded from reality, when they praise their government for keeping things from them, when they choose to conduct their lives within the limits of whatever fantasy the government supplies, then they are no longer consenting to be governed, they are begging to be ruled.”
“Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.”
“I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.”

Source : Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“I'm reluctant to draw many conclusions from private correspondence leaked without permission.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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