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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

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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… 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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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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Walter Lippmann
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Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle. – Marc Andreessen

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Sometimes Im dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us thats the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time. – Susan Orlean

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Technology

Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we dont have to experience it. – Max Frisch

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We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new. – Michael Eisner

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Without humility there can be no humanity. – John Buchan

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. – Henry Ward Beecher

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