A Quote by Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Barry Commoner

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Barry Commoner
American - Scientist
May 28, 1917 - September 30, 2012

Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.

Terry Eagleton

Another guy barked orders to a small army of brooms, mops, and buckets that were scuttling around, cleaning up the city. "Like that cartoon," Sadie said. "Where Mickey Mouse tries to do magic and the brooms keep splitting and toting water." "'The Sorcerer's Apprentice,'" Zia said. "You do know that was based on an Egyptian story, don't you?

Rick Riordan

One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?

Pablo Picasso

For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

Carlos Castaneda

I suspect Bill Snyder may be a sorcerer... he's one of the coaches that I admire most!

Mike Leach

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

Thomas Jefferson

The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes in programs or spells can lead to completely unforseen behavior: e.g., see the story, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". Neither study is easy: "...her [Galinda's] early appetite for sorcery had waned once she'd heard what a grind it was to learn spells and, worse, to understand them." from the book "Wicked" by G. Maguire.

Richard E. Pattis

Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

Honore de Balzac

the dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water

Hakim Bey

Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.

Karl Marx

The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.

Hakim Bey

When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked. Let's move on. Let's do something new.