"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response."

-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#Memories Quotes #Technology Quotes #Tradition Quotes

“In the beginning, there was house. In the end, there was house, and in the middle, there is Axwell”
“I mean, we should only be talking about the merits of film ["Moonlight"] because one of the great things about the visual language is that it is the great equalizer.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air. All the names will be erased from the billboards and the theatres and the piers and the magazines and the monuments. You live by myths of immortality, and your myths are not safe.”
“The Sage of Toronto ... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle's present vulgarity.”
“The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.”
“People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.”

Source : Joy Kogawa (1983). “Obasan”, Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books
“The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is to determine whether individual influences can be isolated and their effects measured. The essence of the method lies in the determination that we are really comparing like with like, and that we have not overlooked a relevant factor which is present in Group A and absent from Group B. The variability of human beings in their illnesses and in their reactions to them is a fundamental reason for the planned clinical trial and not against it.”
“I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.”

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