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  • #1
    W.B. Yeats
    “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
    William Butler Yeats

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #3
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “God has no religion.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #4
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    Soren Kierkegaard

  • #5
    John Lennon
    “I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
    John Lennon

  • #6
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #7
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #8
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  • #9
    Rob Bell
    “The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.”
    Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

  • #10
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
    Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

  • #11
    You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new
    “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
    To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
    Buckminster Fuller

  • #12
    Douglas Adams
    “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #13
    Patti Smith
    “Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

    (Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
    Patti Smith

  • #14
    Philip K. Dick
    “There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”
    Philip K. Dick

  • #15
    Pablo Picasso
    “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #16
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.”
    Arthur C. Clarke

  • #17
    Nadine Gordimer
    “Books don't need batteries.”
    Nadine Gordimer

  • #18
    Robert M. Pirsig
    “The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.”
    Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

  • #19
    Jefferson Bethke
    “We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are.”
    Jefferson Bethke, Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough

  • #20
    Dan    Brown
    “Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.”
    Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

  • #21
    Toshiro Kageyama
    “If you do not feel the same tightening in your chest as when you close your eyes and picture the face of a lover, you do not love good shape enough.”
    Toshiro Kageyama, Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go

  • #22
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    Benjamin Franklin



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