Alan Lomax Quotes
The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.
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The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
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A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.
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The purpose of computers is human freedom.
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(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute
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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
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Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.
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Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.
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Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts.
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In the U.S., our work with law enforcement focuses on criminal computer networks. With legitimate businesses that copy software illegally, we generally follow through with a civil suit.
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I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.
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Almost every profession I look at where you require human labor or you require intelligence, I see computers being able to do better than us within the next 10 years. I'm talking about a mass replacement of humans with artificial intelligence and robots.
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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
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'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.
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I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.
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I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'
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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
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I was born and raised in Zambia in 1969. At the time of my birth, blacks were not issued birth certificates, and that law only changed in 1973.
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In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
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Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?
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There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.
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The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.
