Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Langdon Winner

I don't go to restaurants, I go to tables.

The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. . . . At the time I happened to be driving across country on Interstate 80. In each city where I stopped for gas or food — Laramie, Ogallala, Moline, South Bend — the melodies wafted in from some far-off transistor radio or portable hi-fi. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard. For a brief while the irreparable fragmented consciousness of the West was unified, at least in the minds of the young.

Who says that actors are cattle? Show me a cow who can earn a million dollars a film.

Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.

In the technical realm, we repeatedly enter into a series of social contracts, the terms of which are revealed only after the signing.