"Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state"

-- Iain Banks

#Technology Quotes #Matter Quotes #Communist Quotes

“In contemporary music, the challenge for me is to make the recorder sound as naturally expressive as, for example, the violin - without doing it too much and forcing the instrument. It is very easy to be overly expressive on the recorder, and finding the balance is quite difficult.”
“You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.”
“People elect the President for reasons that have nothing to do with his ability to be president.”
“I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.”
“My favorite type of photography - apart from fashion photography - is journalism, which in a way documents something that exists in a very precise moment, that didnt exist in a moment before and will not exist ever again. This has influenced my work a lot - I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.”
“It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh of dead animals; not more humane hunting and trapping, but the total eradication of these barbarous practices.”
“A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.”

Source : Eric Berne (2010). “What Do You Say After You Say Hello”, p.235, Random House
“There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven...”

Source : Song: Holes To Heaven, Album: On And On

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