“Animals are robots that work. Toons are simply robots without hard bodies.”
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
“Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is hard work.”
Diary entry (21 February 1944).
The Diary and Letters of Käthe Kollwitz (1955)
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