Carolina QuotesTechnological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Ch. 1, p. 9 [2012 reprint]. Also in "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" in Adonis and the Alphabet (1956); later in Collected Essays (1959), p. 293
- work
- Ends and Means (1937)
- year
- 1937
- locator
- p. 9
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