Certain Quote by Douglas Rushkoff

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

— Susan Glaspell

“And time is something we made up. Digital clocks, quartz watches, atomic clocks don’t measure ‘time’ they are just devices that exhibit change. Clocks…

— martin gover

“Clocks served two purposes, in my opinion. The first was to tell people the time, and the second to impress upon me that time…

— Cees Nooteboom

“The mechanical clock,” as Lewis Mumford wrote, “made possible the idea of regular production, regular working hours and a standardized product.” In short, without…

— Neil Postman

“Perhaps what we need is a radical reconceptualization of time: not as an adversary to be vanquished (a race against time) or a criminal…

— Helen Sword

A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.

— Susan Glaspell

Clockwork could not run counter to its nature. The seconds, minutes, and hours moved only forward. Patient, precise, and unstoppable. Memory was an indulgence,…

— Matthew J. Kirby

Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our time. We…

— Richard Koch

Time is a very useful concept in terms of survival. It's extraordinary that we can delineate a day into segments so that we can…

— Gangaji

“But even they it was as though the time that the clock measured was not put to any use. For by far the majority…

— Peter Høeg

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to…

— Paul Kagame

Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all…

— Orhan Pamuk