"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
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