Thought for the day- 2/1
Posted on: Mon, 02/01/2010 - 10:09am
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OfflineThe machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug -- that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes. -George Orwell, novelist (1903-1950)
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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. -Vladimir Nabokov
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Like.
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College House Bed and Breakfast, Ashland, OH
I like it, too. Especially in thinking of the computer as the machine. Very timely.
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“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” Pericles
and what machine was he referring to back in his day? i think he was one of the time travelers.
TV? Radio? Telephone? Can opener?
government?
Mass media
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