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> [The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only those technologies that prove functional for a culture and can be integrated into everyday life are 'left…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-grenzfurthner/the-widespread-inability-to-understand-technological-artifacts-as/)

[Johannes Grenzfurthner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-grenzfurthner/)

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> [“Not all music should be functional. Any culture, and all cultural levels, need music that challenges conventions and pushes the boundaries. To say that church music is a functional art does not mean that art music and popular music are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-a-wren/not-all-music-should-be-functional-any-culture-and-all-cultural/)

[Brian A. Wren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-a-wren/)

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