Quote by Walter Lippmann
You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jollie

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers. – Walter Lippmann

Other quotes by Walter Lippmann

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. – Walter Lippmann

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Intelligence
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. – Walter Lippmann

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Science
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. – Walter Lippmann

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Business
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Other Quotes from
Technology
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We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost. – Ralph Merkle

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Technology

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold its own if it doesnt, the thing collapses. – Arnold Newman

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Technology

Technology is permeating every single thing we do… And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, were planning for the future. – Marc Morial

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Technology

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but its all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology. – Whitfield Diffie

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Technology

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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. – Albert Camus

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