“Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day.” PeopleHumansPurposeMillionsBlessingInstrumentsDeedsRationalIdiotEach DayGossipVillageVehicleThugVillage Idiots Book:Technics and Civilization Source: Technics and Civilization
“The life-efficiency and adaptability of the computer must be questioned. Its judicious use depends upon the availability of its human employers quite literally to keep their own heads, not merely to scrutinize the programming but to reserve for themselves the right of ultimate decision. No automatic system can be intelligently run byautomatonsor by people who dare not assert human intuition, human autonomy, human purpose.” PeopleHumansUseRunningPurposeDecisionDependsComputerUltimateDareIntuitionProgrammingReservesEfficiencyAutonomyEmployersAdaptabilityAvailabilityScrutinize Author:Lewis Mumford
“Man's Chief purpose is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life.” MenGivingHumansWisdomPurposeValuesPoliticsIndividualEconomyCreationCivilizationChiefsHuman LifeLiberalismSignificanceParticipationPreservation Author:Lewis Mumford
“Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth.” PastFormPurposeValuesProcessGrowthCreativeAchievementCreative ProcessEmergenceDynamics Author:Lewis Mumford
“Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate, not to external means and consequences, but to internal transformations, and unless it produce these internal transformations the work of art is either perfunctory or dead.” MeanArtDifferentPurposeOrderProduceArt IsConsequenceTransformationRelateInternalsWorks Of ArtMeaning Of Art Author:Lewis Mumford
“Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience.” HumansFactsPurposeEnergyInterestExperienceDataAtomsHuman ExperienceElectrons Author:Lewis Mumford
