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    Douglas Adams
    “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: humour, life, science, technology
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    Patti Smith
    “Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

    (Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
    ― Patti Smith
    tags: books, materialism, musicians, pure-awesome, technology
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    Philip K. Dick
    “There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: dystopia, liberty, spying, surveillance, surveillance-society, technology
    578 likes

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    Pablo Picasso
    “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: technology
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: technology, wisdom
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    David Sedaris
    “At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.”
    ― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
    tags: humor, technology, typewriters
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    “The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”
    ― Sydney J. Harris
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    Max Brooks
    “Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.”
    ― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
    tags: brooks, max-brooks, science-fiction, technology, world-war-z, zombie, zombies
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    Criss Jami
    “In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.”
    ― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
    tags: access, age, confusion, eye, information, information-overload, internet, issue, junkies, media, mind, mind-control, mind-pollution, mobile, news, overload, overwhelming, storm, technology, too-much, world
    74 likes

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    Howard Schultz
    “Mass advertising can help build brands, but authenticity is what makes them last. If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to the brand.”
    ― Howard Schultz, Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
    tags: authenticity, brand-loyalty, branding
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    Bernard Kelvin Clive
    “Personal Branding is the combination of one’s skills and talents to produce value for people that creates an impression, a perception and reputation in the mind of others”
    ― Bernard Kelvin Clive, The No Nonsense Guide to Personal Branding for Career Success
    tags: branding, personal-branding-reputation
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    “Every profession bears the responsibility to understand the circumstances that enable its existence.”
    ― Robert Gutman
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    Sylvia Dolson
    “Nature is inexhaustibly sustainable if we care for it. It is our universal responsibility to pass a healthy earth onto future generations.”
    ― Sylvia Dolson, Joy of Bears
    tags: environment, harmony, joy, nature, peace, sustainability
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    “Consume less; share better.”
    ― Hervé Kempf
    tags: sharing, sustainability
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    Derrick Jensen
    “We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.”
    ― Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
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