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Letter "T" » technological
«In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.»
Author: Charles Krauthammer
| Keywords:
ailment, ailments, cactus, extract, middle ages, Modern Age, potion, potions, shiny, snake, snake oil, technological
«Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.»
«All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.»
Author: Mark Kennedy
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
Airplanes, automobile, inventions, laziness, technological, volumes
«If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery»
«As both capitalist and communist states -- not to mention the technological world --have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our»
Author: Stephen Vizinczey
| Keywords:
capitalist, communist, evolved, feeds, ideological, mention, niche, niches, not to mention, purposefully, technological
«In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Conscience,
Technology
| Keywords:
electronic, extension, Information Age, more and more, technological, translated
«All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Civilization,
Progress
| Keywords:
axe, criminal, laud, lauded, pathological, technological, technological progress, The Axe, the Hand
«Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
bluff, bluffer, deep space, Open society, simulation, simulations, spaces, technological, the US
«For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
occupies, role, technological, tribal, uncontrollable
«In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind -- too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. . . . East and West do not distrust each other because we are armed; we are armed because we distrust each other. And our differences are not about weapons but about liberty. . . . The most fundamental distinction of all between East and West (sic.) [is that] the totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship. The totalitarian world finds even symbols of love and of worship an affront.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
affront, affronted, affronts, backwardness, communist, declining, distrust, East, health food, human health, sic, soviet, Soviet Union, symbols, technological, thwart, thwarting, thwarts
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