Technology or Perish?

Image by PLANETART via FlickrThe strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. – Blaise Pascal




Be good and you will be lonesome. – Mark Twain



Technology or perish. – John R Pierce



There are three ways of courting ruin – women, gambling and calling in technicians.



The genius of modern technology lies in making things to last fifty years and making them obsolete in three. – anonymous



Technology – the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. – Max Frisch



Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable. – Joseph Wood Krutch

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Necessity Never Makes Good Bargains

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The heart has its reasons which reason does not understand. – Blaise Pascal

That which is necessary is never a risk. – Paul de Gondi

The word ‘necessary’ seldom is. – Keith W. Hall

The man who wrestles with necessity, I esteem a fool. – Euripides

Necessity never made a good bargain. – Benjamin Franklin

Autoptic – adj. – pertaining to evidence based on observation. – Josefa Heifetz Byrne – Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective. - Richard Schickel

All Human Evil Comes From This - - -

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Blaise Pascal
1623-1662

French Mathematician and Philosopher
The inventor of the first digital calculator

I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

The state of man: inconstancy, boredom, anxiety –

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Man is neither angel nor beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully when they do it from religious convictions.