“War is never anything less than accelerated technological change.”

"The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

Source: The Four Pillars of Investing (2002), Chapter 5, Tops: A History Of Manias, p. 130.

Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Source: Cited in Addio a Rita Levi Montalcini, scienziata e donna straordinaria http://www.panorama.it/scienza/rita-levi-montalcini-morta/, Panorama.it, 30 dicembre 2012.

Harvey Postlethwaite - Henry, pg. 25

Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 178-179

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)
Context: I don't want to dump on TV, but there's no doubt that our language has been changed by television, especially by the media, which tries to manipulate us into being consumers. Most of the time nowadays we human beings are referred to as consumers. What does the consumer think? What does the consumer want? How ugly. Forest fires consume. Cancer consumes. I want us to be nourishers. To be a librarian, particularly a librarian for young adults, is to be a nourisher, to share stories, offer books full of new ideas. We live in a world which has changed radically in the last half century, and story helps us to understand and live creatively with change.
The changes are not going to stop. They are going to continue and accelerate. Like it or not.

Source: Bright Lights, Big City