“You must all be aware that modern war is not a mere matter of military operations. It involves the whole strength and all the resources of the nation. Not only soldiers, but also all citizens without exception, take part.” WarMatterWholeNationsModernMilitaryCitizensResourcesMereSoldierOperationsExceptionModern WarMilitary Operations Author:Chiang Kai-shek
“The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.” KindUseForcePowerfulAttentionConsciousnessModernFieldsReaderAreasAll KindsOperationsEnterpriseListenersViewersStagingOverloaded Author:Saul Bellow
“The problem of restoring integration and co-operation between man's beliefs about the world in which he lives and his beliefs about values and purposes that should direct his conduct is the deepest problem modern life. It is the problem of any philosophy that is not isolated from life.” MenWorldShouldPhilosophyProblemWisdomPurposeValuesBeliefModernDirectOperationsIsolatedIntegrationModern LifeRestoring Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929 Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929
“The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus.” KindPersonsFactsScienceModernDifficultyPhysicsPsychologicalSymbolsChiefsMathematicalOperationsSufficientNonsenseTheoreticalCalculusSupposingSupposing ThatTheoretical PhysicsIntegral Calculus Book:The decline and fall of science Source: The decline and fall of science
“The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.” WorldStatesUnitedUnited StatesModernOperationsModern WorldSurveillanceGreat Power Author:Jeffrey Toobin
“Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that will be just too bad for mankind. There will have to be some stretching and a bit of amputation—the same sort of stretching and amputations as have been going on ever since applied science really got going into its stride, only this time they will be a good deal more drastic than in the past. These far from painless operations will be directed by highly centralized totalitarian governments.” IfsWellsHas BeensGovernmentPastLyingBitsDealsModernMankindFitBedScientistDressesNuclearOperationsStretchingStrideDrasticPainlessApplied ScienceAmputationTotalitarian Government Author:Aldous Huxley
“For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because of the complexity of managing groups. We haven't had all the groups we've wanted, we've simply had the groups we could afford. The old limits of what unmanaged and unpaid groups can do are no longer in operation.” Has BeensWantedPoliticalDesirePoliticsStrongCan DoEffortGroupsModernTalentHavensLimitsStructureOperationsComplexityModern LifeGroup Effort Author:Clay Shirky