Primitive Technology Quotes

#1. Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job.

Michel Faber

#2. I love the quietness of the library, the gateway to knowledge, to the French language and medieval history and hydraulic engineering and fairy tales, learning in a very primitive form: books, something that's quickly giving way to modern technology.

Mary Kubica

#3. It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?

Czeslaw Milosz

#4. Lighting was very primitive. And still it was really the way to learn because sometimes some of the modern technology is so extreme and so compartmentalized that we lose sight of exactly what we're doing.

Haskell Wexler

#5. Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beings
as men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races.

Toba Beta

#6. I'm not against the concept of Creators/God, I'm against the antiquated beliefs that there are evil things, which are merely axioms we concocted out of our inadequacy as mortal beings, primitive brain, and underdeveloped technology.

Andreas Laurencius

#7. The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#8. Darcy speaking to Georgiana: Even though Elizabeth may not have the appearance of her sister Jane, her inner beauty diffuses to the surface in a most splendid way.

Noe

#9. I write on a computer. On breaks, I'll make myself green tea. I don't want something too caffeinated. I guess I don't believe in chemical enhancement of my writing. Just slight, but nothing crazy.

Chang-rae Lee

#10. The point is: whenever there is a conflict between modern technology and the desires of our primitive ancestors, these primitive desires win each time. That's the Cave Man Principle.

Michio Kaku

#11. As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

Don DeLillo

#12. Nothing is more American than stuffing your face with loaded potato skins while drinking loaded mudslides.

Chelsea Handler

#13. I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.

Chris Toumazou

#14. In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology.

Hortense Powdermaker

#15. Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body
we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!

Max Frisch

#16. Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty and mystery and be glad.

George Sterling

#17. With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.

Kazimir Malevich

#18. There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Don DeLillo

#19. A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resources virtually has them.

Livy

#20. People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.

Robyn Hitchcock

#21. The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to.

Harriet Lerner

#22. I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.

Terry Riley

#23. Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.

Robert Bringhurst