Quotes of: Advanced-technology Keyword

There can be no doubt that the existing Fauna and Flora is but the last term of a long series of equally numerous contemporary species, which have succeeded one another, by the slow and gradual substitution of species for species, in the vast interva...

The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

If you want to know my story, you have to go back to the beginning. Not the beginning-beginning, but about nine months later. You see, I was born as a poor farm boy. Believe it or not, my parents were so poor that they didn’t even own a farm. Nope....

American Association for the Advancement of Aardvarks Presents: Dear Natalie

Dear Natalie, In a recent study conducted by jarodkintz.com, nine out of ten people were more likely to say yes when the salesperson wore pants. The curious thing is that the prospective customers were being sold a foreskin, and only one out of ten p...

American Association for the Advancement of Aardvarks Presents: Dear Natalie

When Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow meet, only Today gets to shake hands twice. That makes Today twice as important as the other two. But it also means that Today must be careful, because who knows whether Yesterday or Tomorrow washed their hands aft...

American Association for the Advancement of Aardvarks Presents: Dear Natalie

If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assi...

One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Thomas Reid

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

Faye Wattleton

I like connecting with people through technology.

Theophilus London

The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of...

Brave Companions

Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don't use your verbal skills and networking, it...

Rick Pitino

The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Since consciousness points beyond itself, it is in its very being a self-transcendence.

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

Even if there were no ear for them but the void, our prayers would still be the only things that sanctify our existence.

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

Our freedom is the way in which we are able to let the world open before us, and ourselves stand open within it.

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end?

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better

The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so.

Leading To Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook For Women

Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism

If Amazon’s dream of a world without gatekeepers becomes reality, then the company itself will become a powerful gatekeeper.

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism

This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)

White Noise: Text and Criticism

We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer.

Sebastian Thrun