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• Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity, and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.

  Bob Ney

  Independent, Opportunity, Equality

  "U.S. House Passes Braille Commemorative Coin Bill". Bob Ney's remarks before the vote on H.R. 2872, nfb.org. February 28, 2006.

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• We're spending money on clean coal technology. Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal?

  George W. Bush

  Years, Coal, Realizing

  George W. Bush Discusses Strengthening Social Security in Washington, D.C., georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 8, 2005.

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• Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Magic, Advanced Technology

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• I've got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don't have Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It ruins a romantic idea, which might just be an illusion, a sense of depth or continuity. I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.

  Laura Marling

  Character, Unique, Thinking

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• Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the realm of revealing, i.e., of truth

  Martin Heidegger

  Mean, Essence, Giving

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• The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already affected man in his essence. The rule of Enframing threatens man with the possibility that it could be denied to him to enter into a more original revealing and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth

  Martin Heidegger

  Men, Essence, Firsts

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• The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to be of the spirit of this century. Machines have replaced the transcendental spiritualism of past eras.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Past, Reality, Maintenance

  László Moholy-Nagy, Renate Heyne, Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Molderings (2009). “Moholy-Nagy: the photograms : catalogue raisonné”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.

  Mark Gibbs

  Numbers, People, Rehearsal

  "The myth of the digital lifestyle" by Mark Gibbs, www.networkworld.com. January 9, 2006.

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• Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

  Douglas Gwyn

  Clever, Stupid, Unix

  "Introducing Regular Expressions". Book by Michael Fitzgerald, 2012.

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• [The] dynamics of computational artifacts extend beyond the interface narrowly defined, to relations of people with each other and to the place of computing in their ongoing activities. System design, it follows, must include not only the design of innovative technologies, but their artful integration with the rest of the social and material world.

  Lucy Suchman

  People, Design, Ongoing

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• Your technology is the inner practice of meditation, which will stimulate the link between your brain and ignite your innate desire to know your True Self. Trust yourself in a deeper way & reap the rewards!

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Practice, Self

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Jan 22, 2013

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• Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Powerful, Team Building

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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• We have a constantly-changing portfolio of social media experiments. The first time we tried applying social technologies in a customer service department it became the most productive department in the company.

  Sandy Carter

  Media, Firsts, Portfolios

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• Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.

  danah boyd

  Publicity, Social Media, Privacy

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• Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal crises of the aging preadolescent; all are familiar images of American society. They are signs of private nightmares of incoherence and disorder in broken climaxes where technologies in pursuit of mastery create ever-worsening problems - private nightmares expanded to a social level.

  Paul Shepard

  Broken, Historical, Enemy

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• Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

  Karl Marx

  Science, Funny Science

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.406, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

  Monica Edwards

  Age, Stuff, Electronic Devices

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• It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit.

  Janet Napolitano

  Tsa, Would Be, Environment

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• Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

  Aaron Swartz

  Light, World, Down And

  "Stars Rise at Startup Summer Camp" by Ryan Singel, www.wired.com. September 13, 2005.

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• At Facebook, we're inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information. We often talk about inventions like the printing press and the television - by simply making communication more efficient, they led to a complete transformation of many important parts of society. They gave more people a voice. They encouraged progress. They changed the way society was organized. They brought us closer together.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Communication, Voice, People

  "Mark Zuckerberg's Letter To Investors: 'The Hacker Way'". www.wired.com. February 1, 2012.

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• With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and realizing that one must keep up, I maintain, nonetheless, that the real creative power is in the mind and heart of the composer.

  Henry Mancini

  Real, Heart, Media

  Henry Mancini (2001). “Did They Mention the Music?: The Autobiography of Henry Mancini”, p.185, Cooper Square Press

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• Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.

  Jim Costa

  Smart, Practice, Water

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• I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children.

  Colson Whitehead

  Children, Clouds, Balloons

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• Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state

  Iain Banks

  Matter, Communist, Possibility

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• I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.

  James Cameron

  Father, Engineering, Always Trying

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.110, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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