+ What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine? Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Brunner, Human, Machines, 0 - John Brunner Author · United Kingdom
+ To go faster you must slow down. Feraz Zeid, September 13, 2023December 24, 2023, John Brunner, Learn, Slow Down, Teaching, 0 - John Brunner Author · United Kingdom
+ Pay him what was promised, said the caliph. “And put out his eyes.” Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Brunner, Cynical, Eye, Pay, 0 - John Brunner Author · United Kingdom
+ Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures? Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Brunner, Human, Rational, 0 - John Brunner Author · United Kingdom
+ First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then …? Then you serve machines. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Brunner, Machines, 0 - John Brunner Author · United Kingdom
+ Don’t bother explaining–I’ve heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Brunner, Excuse, Trouble, 0 - John Brunner Author · United Kingdom
+ It’s supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Brunner, Technology, 0 - John Brunner Author · United Kingdom
+ You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you’re old. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Brunner, Proud, Remember, 0 - John Brunner Author · United Kingdom
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France