All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
—David Brower, 1992
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
—Victor Hugo, 1862Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge.
—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.
—Erasmus, 1511What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
—Mario Cuomo, 1985The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
—Heinrich Heine, 1827One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
—George Santayana, c. 1914