Moshe Vardi In 2017, there was a sudden recognition of several adverse societal consequences of information technology, from job losses due to automation to manipulation of public opinion, with significant political consequences. – Moshe Vardi Adverse Quotes Automation Quotes Consequences Quotes Job Quotes Losses Quotes Manipulation Quotes Opinion Quotes Political Quotes Public Quotes Recognition Quotes Societal Quotes Sudden Quotes Technology Quotes We will hear more regrets from founders of tech companies about the addictive technologies they have launched. The stabilizing influence of the modern social welfare state emerged only after World War II, nearly 200 years on from the 18th-century beginnings of the Industrial Revolution.
Eli Wallach What is it in my makeup that makes me grab any offer and fly around the world? Will I ever be satisfied? Can’t I ever just rest? – Eli Wallach
Mary Kom Youngsters taking up boxing will get a lot of encouragement to do something for the country, seeing my laurels. – Mary Kom
Jonah Marais When you do a meet and greet, every single girl wants something special from you – an extra little hug or something. And that takes something out of you, almost – like, emotionally, you know. – Jonah Marais
Frances Wright Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it. – Frances Wright
Brad Thor In some ways, it’s better that Obama got elected than McCain. I’d rather be stabbed in the chest with an Obama steak knife than to have been slowly bled to death with McCain paper cuts. Say what you will, but Obama has brought about a patriotic and civic renaissance, the likes of which I have never seen. – Brad Thor
Cynthia Ozick To say that such-and-such a circumstance is ‘Kafkaesque’ is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole in what we take to be modernism – even in what we take to be the ordinary fabric and intent of language. Nothing is like ‘The Hunger Artist.’ Nothing is like ‘The Metamorphosis.’ – Cynthia Ozick
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