During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them have done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

—Bernard Baruch

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Bernard Mannes Baruch (August 19, 1870 – June 20, 1965) was an American financier and statesman.

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

—Bernard Baruch

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

—Bernard Baruch

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

—Bernard Baruch

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

—Bernard Baruch

Never answer a critic, unless he's right.

—Bernard Baruch

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

—Arthur C. Clarke

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For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press 3.

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I just don't know why they're shooting at us. All we want to do is bring them democracy and white bread. Transplant the American Dream. Freedom. Achievement. Hyperacidity. Affluence. Flatulence. Technology. Tension. The inalienable right to an early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in the back.

—Alan Alda as Hawkeye on M*A*S*H

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Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air, and water. Men can employ it as a tool, or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

—Lewis H. Lapham

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