Wednesday, April 18, 2007

arcade fever

"Extreme Optimism concerning the promise of the "new" nature of technology, and total pessimism concerning the course of history, which without proletarian revolution would never leave the stage of prehistory--this orientation characterizes all stages of the Arcades project."
Susan Buck-Morss (p. 64).

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history."
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. "
Unknown

"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. "
Tom Stoppard (1937 - )

"Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working. "
Anonymous

"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. "
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today. "
Henry Ford (1863 - 1947), Interview in Chicago Tribune, May 25th, 1916

Quotations from www.quotationspage.com

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