Quote of the day, mostly related to astronomy.

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“Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.” – Janice Maeditere

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Merry Christmas to all of you ,
health, happiness and prosperity.

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It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.
Peter Buffett

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When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching—they are your family.
Jim Butcher

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Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.
Gail Lumet Buckley

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Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. Christian Lous Lange

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Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion. Ray Kurzweil

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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. Alan Watts

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We live in an age of innovation, where digital technology is providing solutions to problems before we've even realised we needed them. We see it every day as we find new ways to travel, eat and shop. David Lidington

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Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation. Dean Kamen

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It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Godfrey Reggio

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Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out. Martin Gore

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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion. Dalai Lama

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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Daniel Bell

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Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out. Martin Gore

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Commonly encountered as chat bots in "customer service" web sites.

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Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology. Michel Foucault

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Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. Jacques Ellul

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We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them. Douglas Adams

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Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. Jacques Ellul

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Doing the wrong thing more efficiently does not produce progress.

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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Niels Bohr