Electric Chairs

Famous quotes containing the words electric and/or chairs:

“Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self- employment and artistic autonomy.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)

“My verse
has brought me
no roubles to spare:
no craftsmen have made
mahogany chairs for my house.”
—Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)