#log

There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

#consultants #controls #design #designed #film

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#possessions #technology #travel #beauty

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#ever #important #industrial #more #science

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#logic #prior #truth #world

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#class #concepts #descriptive #discussing #faculties

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. ↗

— Nicola Abbagnano

#fallible #find #itself #logic #must

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

#creeds #eternal #gospel #human #ideologies

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#chronological #modernity #qualitative

And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years. ↗

— Chris Anderson

#about #automobile #automobile industry #change #electric

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet. ↗

— Charles Mengel Allen

#get #go #go to hell #hell #help