The Wonder Is Not That So Much

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.

The Great City Is The Best Organ Of Memory Man Has Yet Created.

The Humanities And Science Are Not In Inherent Conflict But Have Become Separated In The Twentieth Century. Now Their Essential Unity Must Be Re-emphasized, So That Twentieth-century Multiplicity May Become Twentieth-century Unity.

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.

In The Name Of Economy A Thousand Wasteful Devices Would Be Invented; And In The Name Of Efficiency New Forms Of Mechanical Time-wasting Would Be Devised: Both Processes Gained Speed Through The Nineteenth Century And Have Come Close To The Limit Of Extravagant Futility In Our Own Time. But Labor-saving Devices Could Only Achieve Their End-that Of Freeing Mankind For Higher Functions-if The Standard Of Living Remained Stable. The Dogma Of Increasing Wants Nullified Every Real Economy And Set The Community In A Collective Squirrel-cage.