"Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man……" — Joseph Wood Krutch
"Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidised commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm."
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81 Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch
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Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
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To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself…
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Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face…
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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to…
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened…
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any,…
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Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that…
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Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing…
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Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or…
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe…
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From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a…
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Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.
— Seth Klarman
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In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just…
— Rainn Wilson
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Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it…
— John A. Van de Walle
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I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the…
— Steve Wozniak
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were…
— Erica Jong
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Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator
— John Arlott
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Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.
— John A. Van de Walle
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A good counter needs no calculator.
— Laozi
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