"Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute."

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Source : Introduction to the French edition of "Crash", 1974.

J. G. Ballard

#Science Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Technology Quotes

“I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants...The Washington press corps has the privilege of asking the president of the United States what he is doing and why.”
“Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results.”
“Kilbane did what he normally does: ran his heart out and gave the ball away a lot.”
“It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.”
“I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!”
“We treat the lyrics like the woman any man wants to impress the most. We give the lyrics all the attention we can. I'm not sure other formats are remembering that the lyrics are what it's all about.”
“Fundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we'd most like to read. Or we try to.”
“All our loves are first loves.”

Source : Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (1986). “Mainland”, Bantam

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