Quotes About Modern

Whenever we turn on our computer, we are plunged into an "ecosystem of interruption technologies,

it has become almost impossible for us to imagine what life was like before electricity began to flow through the sockets in our walls.

our longstanding idea of a computer is obsolete.

More than that, though, the way the punch-card tabulator came to be sold and used would set the pattern for the entire modern history of business computing.

Modern life is always experienced as a struggle: to impose one's individuality on the world, one has to work against the fabric of modern culture itself and uphold ultimate values in the face of purely instrumental and ever more 'rational' forces.

From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.

In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.

In the democracies, the fear spread by religious violence is closer to the fear of excessive punishments for inconsequential slights that modern dictatorships generate.

the principal role of conservatism in modern politics is to be humiliated. That is what a perpetual loyal opposition, or court jester, is for.

You think it's all rather too "New Age" to be taken seriously, eh?' 'Not at all.' 'But it's an ancient discipline...' 'New Age disciplines invariably are,' Beede said, disparagingly, 'but in the modern world they lack context - we just pick them up and then toss them back down again, we consume them. They have no moral claim on us. No moral value. And without that they're rendered meaningless, fatuous, even.

Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but seeks refuge in a dogma.

The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.

Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.

In order not to think of the world which science describes, man gets drunk on technology.

The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.

The most ominous of modern perversions is the shame of appearing naïve if we do not flirt with evil. (La más ominosa de las perversiones modernas es la vergüenza de parecer ingenuos si no coqueteamos con el mal.)

Modern man's misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is not mediocre.

Modern stupidities are more irritating than ancient stupidities because their proselytes seek to justify them in the name of reason.

El suicidio más acostumbrado en nuestro tiempo consiste en pegarse un balazo en el alma.

Modern man fears technology's destructive capacity, when it is its constructive capacity that threatens him.

The plethora of laws is a sign that nobody knows anymore how to command intelligently. Or that nobody knows anymore how to obey freely. When the tyrant is the anonymous law, modern man believes he is free.

Today's reactionary has a satisfaction which yesterday's did not: to see modern programs end not only in disaster but also in ridicule.

Adapting to the modern world demands the hardening of one's sensibility and the debasing of one's character.

The anonymity of the modern city is as intolerable as the familiarity of modern customs. Life should resemble a salon of people with good manners, where all know each other but where none hug each other.