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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 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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Walter Lippmann
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Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. – Walter Lippmann

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Corruption
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We need to make sure that theres art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isnt in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesnt get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art. – LL Cool J

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Technology

Weve been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. Were finally coming into this moment where its coming inside our body for the first time in history. – Daniel H. Wilson

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Technology

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough – they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain havent been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain. – Jaron Lanier

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Technology

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us – through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology – that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. – Richard Dawkins

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Technology

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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse. – Alexander Pope

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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. – Ernest Hemingway

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architecture

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part. – Jacqueline Bisset

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teacher