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Aphorism of the Day

Aphorism on a picture of an apple orchard with vineyards in the Rhône Valley between Condrieu and Vienne.

“Technology is powerful and you know what they say about power.” — Yahooey

Author YahooeyPosted on December 20, 2022December 26, 2022Categories QuotationsTags aphorism, power, technologyLeave a comment on Aphorism of the Day

Quote of the Day

Quote with a picture of Derren Brown.

“Our tendency to abuse and exploit the knowledge we have for nasty ends of course necessitates a system where checks and controls need to be in place as our technology runs far ahead of our morality.” — Derren Brown, Tricks of the Mind

Author YahooeyPosted on May 23, 2022May 22, 2022Categories QuotationsTags Derren Brown, morality, technology1 Comment on Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

Quote with a picture of Bruce Schneier at the Congress on Privacy & Surveillance, September 2013.

“If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don’t understand the problems and you don’t understand the technology.” — Bruce Schneier, Secrets and Lies

Author YahooeyPosted on April 8, 2022April 6, 2022Categories QuotationsTags Bruce Schneier, security, technologyLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.

“A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.” — Andy Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive

Author YahooeyPosted on December 26, 2020December 13, 2020Categories QuotationsTags Andy Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive, technology5 Comments on Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

Of all the calamities to which the condition of mortality exposes mankind, the loss of reason appears, to those who have the least spark of humanity, by far the most dreadful, and they behold that last stage of human wretchedness, with deeper commiseration than any other. But the poor wretch, who is in it, laughs and sings perhaps, and is altogether insensible of his own misery.

“I think novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as the Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., A Man Without a Country

Author YahooeyPosted on December 21, 2020December 10, 2020Categories QuotationsTags A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., novels, sex, technology, VictoriansLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

“Technology is the answer, but what was the question?” — Cedric Price, Lecture title

Author YahooeyPosted on October 12, 2020October 11, 2020Categories QuotationsTags Cedric Price, question, solution, technology3 Comments on Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

One has to immerse oneself in the threatening possibilities offered by modern science and technology, and try to swim to the other end of the pool.

“One has to immerse oneself in the threatening possibilities offered by modern science and technology, and try to swim to the other end of the pool.” — J.G. Ballard, The Art of Fiction No. 85, the Paris Review (Winter 1984)

Author YahooeyPosted on April 27, 2020April 22, 2020Categories QuotationsTags J.G. Ballard, science, technologyLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Through technology we’re becoming more known to everyone but ourselves.

“Through technology we’re becoming more known to everyone but ourselves.” — Joy Williams, The Art of Fiction No. 223, The Paris Review, Summer 2014

Author YahooeyPosted on November 20, 2018November 1, 2018Categories QuotationsTags Joy Williams, self-awareness, self-knowledge, technology, The Art of Fiction, The Art of Fiction No. 223Leave a comment on Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

Resenting a new technology will not halt its progress.

“Resenting a new technology will not halt its progress.” — Marshall McLuhan, Playboy Magazine (March 1969)

Author YahooeyPosted on March 23, 2018July 18, 2021Categories QuotationsTags Marshall McLuhan, Playboy Interview, progress, resentment, technologyLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

There ought to be a restraining order preventing the word “revolutionary” from getting too close to the word “technology.”

“There ought to be a restraining order preventing the word “revolutionary” from getting too close to the word “technology.”” — Clifton Leaf, “Believe the Hype: Here’s the Actual Next Big Thing in Tech,” Fortune (2017-08-22)

Author YahooeyPosted on September 17, 2017September 9, 2017Categories QuotationsTags Clifton Leaf, hype, restraining order, revolutionary, technologyLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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