Computers Quote by David McRaney Download Open image ““You can't rage against the machine through rebellious consumption.”” — David McRaney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computers Consumerism Rebels
“Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter, both philosophers, wrote a book about this in 2004 called The Rebel Sell. It’s available in the United States… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you… — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
“Shoulders slumped in defeat, I turned to walk away. The drugstore had caved under the force of my criminal will, but the Coke machine… — Laura Bickle Copy Share Image
“A machine! I have become a machine! It has taken over my life. How ironic! In a world of freedom and independence, my entire… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
“We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.” — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people may anger you, but realise that they are stealing your energy. Someone can only steal your energy if YOU allow them to.” — Steven Aitchison Copy Share Image
“Oh, the public! There's no satisfying them! It's no use working and doing one's best! One's driven to drinking and cursing it all. .… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“If you neglect your personal space and allow chaos and clutter to creep in, it will affect you, and perhaps encourage further neglect. Positive… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“Do you vote? If not, is it because you think it doesn’t matter because things never change, or politicians are evil on both sides,… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“We reach for the same brand not because we trust its quality but because we want to reassure ourselves that we made a smart… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“Even as the brain is dying, it refuses to stop generating a narrative, the scaffolding upon which it weaves cause and effect, memory and… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“Brand loyalty—that nebulous emotional connection people have with certain companies, which turns them into defenders and advocates for corporations who don’t give a shit.” — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“Women will buy products in an attempt to become the impossible goal. Men will buy products in an attempt to mate with the impossible… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“In 1965, a psychologist named Martin Seligman started shocking dogs. He was trying to expand on the research of Pavlov--the guy who could make… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“In experiments at Baylor University where people were given Coke and Pepsi in unmarked cups and then hooked up to a brain scanner, the… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“Don’t put people, or anything else, on pedestals, not even your children. Avoid global labels such as genius or weirdo. Realize those closest get… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“In science, you move closer to the truth by seeking evidence to the contrary. Perhaps the same method should inform your opinions as well.” — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“In the background, while you crochet and golf and browse cat videos, science is fighting against your stupidity. No other human enterprise is fighting… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
“Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
“Note found in the patron suggestion box: "You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They… — Gina Sheridan Copy Share Image
“You weren't born to be a cog in the giant industrial machine. You were trained to become a cog. There's an alternative available to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share Image
“Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test: a computer is intelligent if you can't tell it from a human when you talk with it. No… — CJS Hayward Copy Share Image
Computers can be taught that certain tune or certain chords changes will sound pleasant together, but I don't think it's going to reach a… — Bonobo Copy Share Image