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Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.
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Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into…
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In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized…
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The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
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If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the…
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It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
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Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task,…
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Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
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Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
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Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that…
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We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap…
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Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no…
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Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into…
— Alvin Toffler
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A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn…
— Gerald Edelman
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As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers…
— Robert Fulton
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Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is…
— Robert Bringhurst
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People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting…
— George Orwell
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We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For…
— Philippe Perrin
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
— Alan Perlis
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It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the…
— Vaclav Havel
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We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent…
— John F. Kennedy
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