“The only problem I have with computers and television is that when all cultures on earth reach the stage we are at it will lead to a kind of homogenization.”
Playboy interview (May 1995)
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Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) Dutch computer scientist
Dijkstra (1986) Visuals for BP's Venture Research Conference http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/EWD963.html (EWD 963). <br class="br">1980s
Alan Kay (1940) computer scientist
ACM Queue A Conversation with Alan Kay Vol. 2, No. 9 - Dec/Jan 2004-2005 http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523 <br class="br">2000s, A Conversation with Alan Kay, 2004–05
“I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.”
Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Source: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Peter Farb (1929–1980) American academic and writer
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Context: At various stages of evolution, the Indian cultures were presented with only a limited number of possibilities. The members of certain kinds of societies—the small band, the large band, the tribe, the chiefdom, the state, and variations of these—tended to make characteristic choices concerning religion, law, government, and art... Such choices were not... consciously made... For a particular society, they either worked or they did not work.<!-- p. 212
José Maria Eça de Queiroz book Cartas de Inglaterra
Em geral, nós outros, os Portugueses, só começamos a ser idiotas – quando chegamos à idade da razão. Em pequenos temos todos uma pontinha de génio.
"A Literatura de Natal"; "Christmas Literature" p. 42.
Cartas de Inglaterra (1879–82)
“When I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!”
Hermann Göring (1893–1946) German politician and military leader
"When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver" was also is used in the 1981 Cannes Film Festival Award winner Mephisto spoken by a character known as "The General" in the English dubbed version.
Misattributed
Variant: "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver." Often attributed to Göring, who might have used such lines, these statements are derived from those in the play Schlageter by Hanns Johst: "Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meinen Browning!" [Whenever I hear of culture... I release the safety-catch of my Browning!] (Act 1, Scene 1) The play was first performed in April 1933 for Hitler's birthday. Reported as a misattribution in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 36.
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
Interview in Macworld magazine (February 2004)
2000s
Charles Darwin book The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
volume I, chapter III: "Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals — continued", page 101 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=114&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=image <br class="br">The Descent of Man (1871)
“Homogenization sterilizes. It's the sum of cultures and languages that makes humanity”
Pierre Bourgault (1934–2003) Canadian politician
L'homogénéisation stérilise. C'est la somme des cultures et des langues qui fait l'humanité.
La Culture. Écrits polémiques. Lanctôt Éditeur, 1996 p.130, tome 2