Even when I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother's cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better. —John Steinbeck More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Without meaning to belittle the wonders of science, I do not think they can absolve mankind of suffering, desire, madness, and death. —Lewis H. Lapham More about this quote Tags: science death suffering desire madness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor, magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire, and 20 or 30 billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky. —Russell Baker More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. —Irene Peter More about this quote Tags: change different Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. Lord of all things, he is not lord of himself. He feels lost amid his own abundance. With more means at its disposal, more knowledge, more techniques than ever, it turns out that the world today goes the same way as the worst of worlds that have been: it simply drifts. —José Ortega y Gasset More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There can be too much communication between people. —Ann Beattie More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press 3. —Alice Kahn More about this quote Tags: technology life ease quality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer knowhow to use my telephone. —Bjarne Stroustrup More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Before we work on artificial intelligence, why don't we do something about natural stupidity? —Steve Polyak More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. —Juan Ramón Jiménez More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I was a Boy Scout, we played a game when new scouts joined the troop. We lined up chairs in a pattern, creating an obstacle course through which the new scouts, blindfolded, were supposed to maneuver. The scoutmaster gave them a few moments to study the pattern before our adventure began. But as soon as the victims were blindfolded, the rest of us quietly removed the chairs. I think life is like this game. Perhaps we spend our lives avoiding obstacles we have created for ourselves but in reality exist only in our minds. We're afraid to apply for that job, take violin lessons, learn a foreign language, call an old friend, write our congressman — whatever it is that we would really like to do but don't because of personal obstacles. Don't avoid any chairs until you run smack into one. —Pierce Vincent Eckhart More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: heroism bravery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. —Betty Reese More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. —Jacob A. Riis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around. —Edgar Watson Howe More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email