"The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it."

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Source : Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

Vannevar Bush

#Age Quotes #World Quotes #Reliability Quotes

“Black people don't talk about diabetes that much. I never knew anything. I thought everyone had an uncle with a leg cut off!”
“Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.”
“I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers. -Juan Crisostomo Ibarra”
“Plato ... says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to influence the multitude results in forced prostitution.”
“I learned at that young age that sometimes a really big chance pays off.”
“The Iranian government has become pretty open about the drug problem in recent years. Opium use is a very traditional, cultural thing in Iran, so the government is actually more open about it than they are about some of the other ills in society. They just don't want to talk about things that might relate to a Western lifestyle even though they know that Iranians indulge. Because there is no real public life left in Iran - people go and have dinner and then everything retreats behind these Persian walls.”
“True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence.”
“I go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5.”

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