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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Essays, 1625.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Essays, 1625.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or read more
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something read more
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground read more
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. read more
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.
I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.