#techno

The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy. ↗

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

#culture #japan #manga #technology #design

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#technology

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#technology

In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children,” Turing had advised. “Rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates. ↗

— Alan M. Turing

#technology #intelligence

...intelligence nowadays is all about application: it is the ability 'to take in a complex system and learn its rules on the fly'. For young people, this ability is second nature. Any fool knows that, if you need a new and unfamiliar VCR programmed in a hurry, you commandeer any small passing child to do it. ↗

— Lynne Truss

#technology #youth #intelligence

The ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to our wishes — a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance — with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#love #technology #love

It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#wonder #men

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#progress #technology #men

The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#relationship #technology #zen #relationship

To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies. ↗

— Harry M. Collins

#science #technology #truth #war #science