Shoshana Quotes

#1. Technology represents intelligence systematically applied to the problem of the body. It functions to amplify and surpass the organic limits of the body; it compensates for the body's fragility and vulnerability ...

Shoshana Zuboff

#2. Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

Shoshana Zuboff

#3. Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information.

Shoshana Zuboff

#4. We know how to punish retailers and manufacturers that don't provide quality and value. But we're lousy at fighting effectively for what we really need - reliable insurance policies; affordable health care; safe, healthy food.

Shoshana Zuboff

#5. Look, I know these Rick Perry jokes are a little mean, but tomorrow, he won't even remember them.

Jimmy Fallon

#6. The past is the past. It's gone, you know? It doesn't matter anymore. All we have is now. Right now.

Lisa Schroeder

#7. Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both their pain and their power.

Shoshana Zuboff

#8. An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

Jack Vance

#9. A good thing that is squandered upon bad folk is never remembered by them for good.

Sebastian Evans

#10. Learning has replaced control as the fundamental role of management.

Shoshana Zuboff

#11. Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and, with it, a crisis of confidence inthe possibility of certain knowledge.

Shoshana Zuboff

#12. It's the soul that's starving, not the body

Shoshana Kobrin

#13. Technology makes the world a new place.

Shoshana Zuboff

#14. Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

Seneca The Younger

#15. Life is good when you live from your roots. Your values are a critical source of energy, enthusiasm, and direction. Work is meaningful and fun when it's an expression of your true core.

Shoshana Zuboff

#16. Space and Time! Two minor omissions that no one is likely to notice," grumbled Newton.

Neal Stephenson

#17. Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

Shoshana Zuboff

#18. Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet.

Shoshana Zuboff

#19. Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil, distress, trouble, fatigue
an exertion both painful and compulsory. Labor was our animal condition, struggling to survive in dirt and darkness.

Shoshana Zuboff

#20. The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

Shoshana Zuboff

#21. Ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.

Shoshana Zuboff

#22. Authority is the spiritual dimension of power because it depends upon faith in a system of meaning that decrees the necessity of the hierarchical order and so provides for the unity of imperative control.

Shoshana Zuboff

#23. Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is barely imaginable. It erodesassumptions about the nature of our reality, the "pattern" in which we dwell, and lays open new choices.

Shoshana Zuboff

#24. You don't hit anything on the backswing, so why rush it?

Doug Ford Jr.

#25. As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

Shoshana Zuboff

#26. The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#27. Sometimes when a plan is right, everything else, all the things you can't control, falls into place just the way it should.

Janet Evanovich

#28. Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile.

Shoshana Zuboff

#29. I would suggest that what the translator has to give up is the temptation to translate history by making sense of it, that is, by using an apologetic or apocalyptic discourse. What the translator fails to do is to erase the body, to erase the murder of the original.

Shoshana Felman

#30. Meditation is a way of slowing down so as to descend into the depths of yourself in the present moment, where God lies waiting to grant you a deep experience of your eternal oneness with God.

James Finley