Langdon Winner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.
-- Langdon Winner

#Powerful #Technology #Acting
The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. . . . At the time I happened to be driving across country on Interstate 80. In each city where I stopped for gas or food â€” Laramie, Ogallala, Moline, South Bend â€” the melodies wafted in from some far-off transistor radio or portable hi-fi. It was the most amazing thing Iâ€™ve ever heard. For a brief while the irreparable fragmented consciousness of the West was unified, at least in the minds of the young.
-- Langdon Winner

#Country #Sgt Pepper #Civilization
In the technical realm, we repeatedly enter into a series of social contracts, the terms of which are revealed only after the signing.
-- Langdon Winner

#Social #Contracts #Term
Who says that actors are cattle? Show me a cow who can earn a million dollars a film.
-- Langdon Winner

#Dollars #Actors #Cows
I don't go to restaurants, I go to tables.
-- Langdon Winner

#Tables #Restaurants

An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.
It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.
I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

Langdon Winner famous quotes

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