Only when human sorrows
Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested – for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day. Emma Goldman
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Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested – for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day. Emma Goldman
Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich. Freeman Dyson
The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than widening the gap between rich and poor. To lift up poor countries, and poor people in rich countries, from poverty, to give them a chance of a decent life, technology is not enough. … Read more
I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I’m just like a kid, like I’ve found a new toy. Dolly Parton
All these things, social media or [smart] phones or the things that distract us from each other, are fairly new. They’re all fairly new inventions, and I think we’re in a stage where we sort of as a whole have gotten these new toys and we’re just obsessed with playing with them. I feel like … Read more
I always kinda liked our attic ghost. When I was a kid, I used to go up there and read stories to it. Show it my new toys. It’s just an old spirit stuck between the worlds, right? What’s to be scared of? ~Vic Claudia Gray
A child’s appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. Christopher Lasch
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs. Christopher Lasch
Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have been if I had given him an engine worked by steam, with a methylated spirit lamp to heat the boiler; more enchanted, perhaps for the engine would have got broken, and, remaining always … Read more
We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed … Read more