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Friday Filosophy #2016-17

Over the past three to four decades there has been many trillions of dollars spent on technology. Unfortunately there has not been the same investment in sociology. Friday Filosophy #2016-17 offers some timely quotes on technology.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology exceeded our humanity.

Albert Einstein

 

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

If someone tells you that you have a lot of potential when you are sixteen that is a complement. If that some someone tells you that you have a lot of potential at sixty six you have to ask what you have done for the past fifty years.

R.J. Slee

 

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Bill Gates

 

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

 

Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Carrier Snow

 

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards escalate.

Alvin Toffler

 

The internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Andrew Brown

 

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Henry David Thoreau

 

The time is now.

Friday Filosophy #2016-16

One of the many challenges we have in this workplace and life is the use of time, the constant pressures, the feeling of being out of control of our lives. With that in mind I offer you some quotes on Serenity in Friday Filosophy #2016-16. I have been searching for serenity in my life for many years now. The search continues.

 

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity that nothing is.

Thomas Szasz

 

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

 

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But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn’t make me happy. If you want peace and serenity, it won’t be reached by getting thinner or fatter.

Elle Macpherson

 

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

Alain Badiou

 

A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength in the balm of Christ. It will help you meet the heartaches and challenges with faith and serenity.

James E. Faust.

 

A garden must contain the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

Luis Barragan

 

I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn’t anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that’s a good run.

Michael Weatherly

 

The time is now.

Friday Filosophy #2016-12

Every now and then I get caught and don’t get this Friday Filosophy done until Monday. That makes me late. That makes me tardy. Today, for Friday Filosophy #2016-12, I thought I would share some interesting quotes on tardiness. Have a great week.

How did it get so late so soon?

Dr. Seuss

 

I want to scream sometimes, because I hate when people refer to a dead person as the “late” so and so. I’m sorry to break the bad news, but that person isn’t just late – they’re not even coming.

Jarod Kintz

 

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier that the people who have to wait for them.

Edward Verrall Lucas

 

Ah, nothing is too late, until the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

Just being alive should make you late for everything. In case you haven’t noticed, the dead are always on time.

Arlene Ang

 

Maybe it’s because he never had any control over what was happening to him as a boy. Being late was somehow a way of taking charge.

Jan Karon

 

One is never too late to become young at heart.

Nadun Lokuliyanage

 

Leaders should know how fast time runs and how much faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them.

Israelmore Ayivor

 

The time is now.