"The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare."

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"The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare."

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"I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper."

Jack Kilby, American Scientist

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"Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"The multidimensional digital effects provide impressive advantages in terms of the speed of delivery, the quality of information for decision making, and the wisdom of digital workforce."

Pearl Zhu, American Author

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"Well, Naomi said cheerfully, "what's the worst that can happen? They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook."

Rachel Caine, Canadian Actress

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"Magic, like technology, is a tool."

Mercedes Lackey, American Author

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"A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence."

Godfrey Reggio, American Director

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"Advances in technology can be empowering, progressive and enriching. History has shown this across civilisations and societies. But it has also shown, and the present and future will continue to show, that it is foolish, risky, flawed and folly without us raising our individual and collective consciousness and mindfulness to accompany it - to ensure we use it shrewdly, kindly and wisely."

Rasheed Ogunlaru, British Motivational Speaker

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"What will happen if we go to 0 day?...Everything has been wipe out from the technology?"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Technology, Future, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"As in all such technological nightmares, the principal task is to foresee what is possible; to educate use and misuse; and to prevent its organizational, bureaucratic and governmental abuse."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

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"Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."

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"Money is a poor man's credit card."

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"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication."

Nature

"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."

Travel

"Jokes are grievances."

Humor

"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."

Age

"Art is anything you can get away with."

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"The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist."

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

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