Quotes About Computers And Society

#1. Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006] - Author: Harper Lee

#2. Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society. - Author: Kent Conrad

#3. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. - Author: Martin Luther King Jr.

#4. I'd like to think I've left something in the world. Without in any way trying to be morbid, but life is very short, and I'd like to think I'd leave some body of work that would inspire other musicians long after I've gone. - Author: Paul Weller

#5. Kenneth Burke calls form the satisfaction of an expectation; The Man Who Loved Children is full of such satisfactions, but it has a good deal of the deliberate disappointment of an expectation that is also form. - Author: Randall Jarrell

#6. My distaste for computers has an almost-political fervor: they're changing our society, I say, and for the worse. Let's act human. Converse. Use our handwriting. I - Author: Lena Dunham

#7. He wants to make an end. And we will. - Author: Anthony Ryan

#8. I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts
me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke. - Author: Michel Houellebecq

#9. What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process. - Author: Seth Lloyd

#10. A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture. - Author: Scott Weiland

#11. Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire. - Author: Charles Dudley Warner

#12. The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. - Author: Noam Chomsky

#13. 25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing! - Author: Daniel Boulud

#14. Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors. - Author: Jaron Lanier

#15. The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other. - Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. I urge new converts to take plenty of time in Bible study and prayer before getting on a public platform to testify. - Author: Billy Graham

#17. The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat. - Author: Dave Barry

#18. Variety is not the spice of life. It is the mother of disorder. Individuality is not the hallmark of freedom. It is the essence of decadence. Freedom is slavery to chaos. Unity is peace, all thinking and acting as one. - Author: Dean Koontz

#19. It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude. - Author: Lita Ford

#20. Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but everyone extends ideas and comes up with suggestions. - Author: Chuck Close

#21. Society needs people who ... know how to be compassionate and honest ... Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone. - Author: Alvin Toffler

#22. It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them. - Author: Roy H. Williams

#23. The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans. - Author: David Smith

#24. If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path! - Author: Maya Angelou