Quotes
Authors
Jacquetta Hawkes

"there is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume that if you don't have, at least, a lavatory and perhaps something that will take you a lot faster than your own feet, or a certain number of gadgets in the house, then you must be in some way, a bit backward and defective ... the important thing to remember is that technology is not necessarily the same thing as civilization."

-- Jacquetta Hawkes

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“It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we're able to see. For that reason, guilt is always inappropriate.”
“Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone...”

Source : Steve Wozniak (2007). “iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon”, p.290, W. W. Norton & Company
“My love of words, alcohol, and stage antics basically cemented me as a rapper, but it wasn't a career that I wanted to do. It was just, "I like to do all these things at one time."”
“I did not read the Bible today. I am not very good at being religious and don't really feel too bad about not being too good. I do wish that I loved God and His creatures more...”
“A great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation. I think this affected many of the scientists in a subtle sense, and it diminished their desire to continue to work on the bomb.”

Source : "President Truman Did Not Understand". U.S. News & World Report, August 15, 1960.
“Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And thatâ€™s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.”
“If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.”
“It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.”

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