Ed Ayres Quotes
We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human heritage. But Thom Hartmann shows how we've already let that happen on a frightening scale - not in Frankenstein's monsters or Kubrick's creeping computer Hal - but in the corporations that present their friendly 'faces' to us as if we have nothing to fear from this ultimate usurpation of our rights as real humans.
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Corporations are the new dictators.
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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
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I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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The big deal is not that a computer technician made a mistake, ... The big deal is how the White House reacted to it.
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Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
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I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.
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A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.
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If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
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... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.
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This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
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It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.
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[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.
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he was the monster that stalked nightmare and they both knew it
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We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.
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My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.
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I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.
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the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.
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Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
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I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?
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I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.
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You are what you are seen to be.
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I've always thought I haven't ever had much of a lucky break.
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We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human heritage. But Thom Hartmann shows how we've already let that happen on a frightening scale - not in Frankenstein's monsters or Kubrick's creeping computer Hal - but in the corporations that present their friendly 'faces' to us as if we have nothing to fear from this ultimate usurpation of our rights as real humans.
