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"You know, I would say Incomplete...but what I would say is the steps that we have taken in saving the auto industry, in making sure that college is more affordable and investing in clean energy and sc…"
"The manuscript (of The Book of Secrets in the Results of Ideas) was copied in 1266 from the original text written by Ibn Khalaf al-Muradi in the eleventh century. The only copy is in the Biblioteca Me…"
"While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are le…"
"In Europe, you do philosophy by performing discourse on another guy's text, and so Derrida will go over Heidegger, and Habermas will extend Marx's corpus; but in America you could never get away with …"
"You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language."
"Naropa Audio Archives: William S. Burroughs class on the technology and ethic of wishing Streaming audio and 64 kbit/s MP3 ZIP file."
"The Stardance Project — a computer-generated film based on Stardance"
"Plowboy: You truly feel that all the major changes in history have been caused by science and technology?"
"The areas traditionally concerned with such systems are: publishing in all its ramification, librarianship, bibliography, documentation, record management, archives and the like. Systematic study of t…"
"PBS Nova: The Wright Brothers' Flying Machines"
"Our strongest ally in the battle against death is the combination of futurism, transhumanism, science, technology, philosophy, and politics."
"Soros viewed as a post-modern philosopher"
"Daberlohn: 'One must first go into oneself to be able to go out of oneself. One means of going out of oneself is, for me, the movie, man's machine for producing himself'."
"Should the computer program the kid or should the kid program the computer?"
"Foucault Quotes of the month, at Queensland University of Technology"
"It should be noted here that a research area which has grown rapidly since the 1980s is the aforementioned STS field, that is, the sociological study of technology and science. Here, western science a…"
"He didn’t have to observe the niceties of etiquette when talking to a computer."
"The way to advance the nation's prosperity and achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization, and substitutin…"
"Science has led to a multitude of results that affect men's lives. Some of these results are embodied in mere conveniences of a relatively trivial sort. Many of them, based on science and developed th…"
"He denounced science and all the products of the mechanical era, including "steam-engines, and telegraphs, photographs, telephones, sewing-machines, phonographs, electricity, telescopes, spectroscopes…"
Marshall McLuhan
Kevin Kelly (editor)
Brian Campbell Vickery
Jef Raskin
Newton Lee
Richard Hamming
Neil Postman
Eric Laithwaite
Larry Wall
William Shakespeare
Steve Jobs
Leonardo da Vinci