A Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Connectedness Encourages Retreat Technology

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Jonathan Safran Foer
American - Novelist
Born: February 21, 1977

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

Keith Haring

The only weapon we have to oppose the bad effects of technology is technology itself. There is no other. We can't retreat into a nontechnological Eden which never existed...It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desireable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

C.P. Snow

The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.

Marshall McLuhan

A poor man celebrates the New Year once a year. A rich man celebrates each day. But the richest man celebrates every moment.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

If you are a woman with this full life who is incredibly ambitious like I am, you have to find somebody who is into it, respects it, encourages it, and celebrates it because he loves that about you. Otherwise, you're going to feel like you're muting yourself.

Angie Martinez

Not even Barbra Streisand celebrates herself as tirelessly as golf celebrates itself.

Bruce McCall

Just as when spring comes, Nature celebrates, When Navaratri comes, the Spirit celebrates.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

John Gay

Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.

Douglas B. Reeves

You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.

Russell Pearce

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.

Julia Glass

What we need is a strong education system that allows creativity to grow and encourages students to be interested in science and technology.

Frances Arnold

Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.

Anand Giridharadas

Indeed, baptism is a vow, a sacred vow of the believer to follow Christ. Just as a wedding celebrates the fusion of two hearts, baptism celebrates the union of sinner with Savior.