Technocrat Quotes & Sayings

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951. — Kurt Vonnegut

Life is hard but so very beautiful — Abraham Lincoln

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum. — Mark Twain

The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator - computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribed there his dream of permanent revolution. This dream, therefore, is itself action, reality, and an effective menace to all established order; it renders possible what it dreams about. — Gilles Deleuze

Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine. — George H. W. Bush

According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man. — John Gresham Machen

I had an honest, ordered, respectable and unexciting life to look forward to. I had sown my wild oats and it was time to grow sage. Or so I imagined. — Stephen Fry

When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it. — Herb Alpert

He didn't even think Tina really liked him, deep down. It was more like she didn't want him to get over her. And not-so-deep down, Park didn't want Tina to get over him. — Rainbow Rowell

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? — Richard Dawkins

The primary difference between sex and death is, with death there is no dress code — Josh Stern

Am I a technocrat? Im just a guy who went down to the bookstore and bought a couple of textbooks on TCP/IP, which is the underlying protocol of the Internet, and read them. And then I signed on to a computer, which anyone can do nowadays, and I messed around with it for a few years, and now I know all about it. Does that make me a technocrat? — Neal Stephenson

Put 'em on and be yourself, mister alienated loner steppenwolf bemused distant meta-izing technocrat rationalist fucking shithead. — Neal Stephenson

Now our kids must have the qualities of both an old aristocrat and a modern technocrat. No wonder they're so busy, and so frantic. — William Deresiewicz

Admit it. You can't have everything. You can't do everything. You can't be everywhere. You are not omnipotent, you are mortal. — Bhavik Sarkhedi

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed. — Lena Dunham