I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that the impact of technology and science depends on how people choose to use them.
Steve Martin highlights the dual nature of technology and science, suggesting that they are not inherently good or bad. Instead, their value is determined by human usage. This statement reflects the idea that responsibility lies with individuals in how they leverage advancements in technology, indicating that blame cannot be placed solely on the tools themselves but rather on the choices made by users.
In practice
In a discussion about technology's impact on society, one might say, 'As Steve Martin said, it's all in how we use it.'
When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
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The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.
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Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
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Type 'What is th' and faster than you can find the 'e' Google is sending choices back at you: 'What is the cloud?' 'What is the mean?' 'What is the American dream?' 'What is the illuminati?' Google is trying to read your mind. Only it's not your mind. It's the World Brain.
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