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"-Is it true they're thinking of using IBM machines to create abstract paintings?
-They might be.
-What! How could a machine paint!
-Abstract. Why not?
-Did you know that some of them can produce music? But here's the catch: their works are perfect, whereas music written by flesh-and-blood musicians is always flawed in some way.
(...) Soon the machines will replace our studios and we'll be out on our ears."

“-Us it true they're thinking of using IBM machines to create abstract paintings?
-They might be.
-What! How could a machine paint!
-Abstract. Why not?
-Did you know that some of them can produce music? But here's the catch: their works are perfect, whereas music written by flesh-and-blood musicians is always flawed in some way.
(…) Soon the machines will replace our studios and we'll be out on our ears.”

“what can we do? Try to revive wisdom and an appreciation of beauty within oneself and in others.
Only a moral revolution - not a social or a political or an industrial revolution - will restore man's lost truth to him.”

I think today’s society could do well with a solid moral revolution…

“As long as we continue to invent new requirements, we will continue to increase our frustrations.
When did this decline begin? The day when we chose science over wisdom, practicality over beauty.”

Still the case…

Continued: “as is the case in some impoverished communities - in Sardinia or in Greece, for example - as yet unreached by industry, uncorrupted by money. In these places people are austerely happy because they have preserved certain values, truly human values like dignity, fraternity, generosity, which gives their lives their unique character.”

“Whatever the country, socialist or capitalist, man is crushed by technology, alienated from his labour, shackled and chained, dehumanised. All of this stems from the fact that he increased his needs when he should have been content to satisfy the ones he had; instead of trying to create an abundance that doesn't and may well never exist, he should have been happy with the essentials”.