Instructions
: Match the quote to the correct author:
1. "A real book is not one that's read, but one that reads us."
T.S. Eliot
W.H. Auden
Ezra Pound
2. "Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present."
Albert Camus
Soren Kierkegaard
Jean-Paul Sartre
3. "The final key to the way I promote is bravado.I play to people's fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That's why a little hyperbole never hurts."
Donald Trump
Walt Disney
Regis Philbin
4. "The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized buy equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring , is far more predictable."
Adam Smith
Immanuel Kant
John Kenneth Galbraith
5. "Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
Steve Jobs
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
George Jetson
6. "There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isin't."
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Bernstein
7. "To hack is to differ."
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
UK Parliament's
1990 Computer Misuse Act
The Hacker Manifesto
8. "The future is made of the same stuff as the present."
Dennis Diderot
Emile Chartier
Simone Weil
9. "Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, seperate planes."
Marshall McLuhan
Michael Moore
John Candy
10. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."
Carson Kressley
The Wizard of Oz
David Blaine
11. "...figures are meaningless in the context of people's concrete experiences."
Nelson Mandela
Tony Blair
Joey Ramone
12. "When you're far from home, you start living in your music. Music is my true home!"
Brian Eno
David Bowie
John Lennon
13. "Gustav Metzke introduced me to guitar smashing. But Allan Cohen introduced me to computers. Back in 1961, when I was at art school, they had a computer that was as big as a factory. But they still did roughly the same things that they do today."
Jimi Hendrix
Pete Townshend
Ozzy Osbourne
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