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Top 25 Tom Standage Quotes (2024 Update)

Tom Standage Quote: “The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE.”

1. “The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “Literacy was power.”

2. “Literacy was power.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. – Marcus Tullius Cicero.”

3. “Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. – Marcus Tullius Cicero.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “There is no hope of any major increase in scientific knowledge by grafting or adding the new on top of the old,” Bacon declared in his book The New Logic, published in 1620. “The restoration of the sciences must start from the bottom-most foundations – unless we prefer to go round in perpetual circles at a contemptibly slow rate.”

4. “There is no hope of any major increase in scientific knowledge by grafting or adding the new on top of the old,” Bacon declared in his book The New Logic, published in 1620. “The restoration of the sciences must start from the bottom-most foundations – unless we prefer to go round in perpetual circles at a contemptibly slow rate.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “Food has a unique political power, for several reasons: food links the world’s richest consumers with its poorest farmers; food choices have always been a potent means of social signaling; modern shoppers must make dozens of food choices every week, providing far more opportunities for political expression than electoral politics; and food is a product you consume, so eating something implies a deeply personal endorsement of it. But.”

5. “Food has a unique political power, for several reasons: food links the world’s richest consumers with its poorest farmers; food choices have always been a potent means of social signaling; modern shoppers must make dozens of food choices every week, providing far more opportunities for political expression than electoral politics; and food is a product you consume, so eating something implies a deeply personal endorsement of it. But.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “Yet the history of media shows that this is just the modern incarnation of the timeless complaint of the intellectual elite, every time technology makes publishing easier, that the wrong sort of people will use it to publish the wrong sorts of things.”

6. “Yet the history of media shows that this is just the modern incarnation of the timeless complaint of the intellectual elite, every time technology makes publishing easier, that the wrong sort of people will use it to publish the wrong sorts of things.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “Paul used social media to ensure that his view prevailed, cementing the establishment of the Christian church as a religion open to all, and not just to Jews. Such is his influence that his letters are still read out in Christian churches all over the world today – a striking testament to the power of documents copied and distributed along social networks.”

7. “Paul used social media to ensure that his view prevailed, cementing the establishment of the Christian church as a religion open to all, and not just to Jews. Such is his influence that his letters are still read out in Christian churches all over the world today – a striking testament to the power of documents copied and distributed along social networks.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “The practice of linking entire networks, rather than individual computers, came to be known as “internetworking” or.”

8. “The practice of linking entire networks, rather than individual computers, came to be known as “internetworking” or.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “Six beverages in particular – beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola – chart the flow of world history. Three contain alcohol, and three contain caffeine, but what they all have in common is that each one was the defining drink during a pivotal historical period, from antiquity to the present day.”

9. “Six beverages in particular – beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola – chart the flow of world history. Three contain alcohol, and three contain caffeine, but what they all have in common is that each one was the defining drink during a pivotal historical period, from antiquity to the present day.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “Spices were certainly regarded as antidotes to earthly squalor in another, more mystical sense. They were thought to be splinters of paradise that had found their way into the ordinary world.”

10. “Spices were certainly regarded as antidotes to earthly squalor in another, more mystical sense. They were thought to be splinters of paradise that had found their way into the ordinary world.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “This new, telegraphic writing style also influenced public speaking: short sound bites became popular because they were easier for stenographers to transcribe, and cheaper and quicker for reporters to transmit.”

11. “This new, telegraphic writing style also influenced public speaking: short sound bites became popular because they were easier for stenographers to transcribe, and cheaper and quicker for reporters to transmit.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “The mere act of sharing something can, in other words, be a form of self-expression.”

12. “The mere act of sharing something can, in other words, be a form of self-expression.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “Although it is no longer customary to offer visitors a straw through which to drink from a communal vat of beer, today tea or coffee may be offered from a shared pot, or a glass of wine or spirits from a shared bottle. And when drinking alcohol in a social setting, the clinking of glasses symbolically reunites the glasses into a single vessel of shared liquid. These are traditions with very ancient origins.”

13. “Although it is no longer customary to offer visitors a straw through which to drink from a communal vat of beer, today tea or coffee may be offered from a shared pot, or a glass of wine or spirits from a shared bottle. And when drinking alcohol in a social setting, the clinking of glasses symbolically reunites the glasses into a single vessel of shared liquid. These are traditions with very ancient origins.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “When coffee became popular in Oxford and the coffee houses selling it began to multiply, the university authorities tried to clamp down, worrying that coffee houses promoted idleness and distracted members of the university from their studies.”

14. “When coffee became popular in Oxford and the coffee houses selling it began to multiply, the university authorities tried to clamp down, worrying that coffee houses promoted idleness and distracted members of the university from their studies.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “He proposed a steam-powered pneumatic tube system to carry telegraph forms the short distance from the Stock Exchange to the main telegraph office.”

15. “He proposed a steam-powered pneumatic tube system to carry telegraph forms the short distance from the Stock Exchange to the main telegraph office.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “It is a sign of a medium’s immaturity when one of the main topics of discussion is the medium itself.”

16. “It is a sign of a medium’s immaturity when one of the main topics of discussion is the medium itself.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “Chappe also had all sorts of ambitious plans for his invention; he hadn’t intended its use to be so predominantly military in nature, and wanted to promote its employment in business.”

17. “Chappe also had all sorts of ambitious plans for his invention; he hadn’t intended its use to be so predominantly military in nature, and wanted to promote its employment in business.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”

18. “Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “When George Washington ran for election to Virginia’s local assembly, the House of Burgesses, in 1758, his campaign team handed out twenty-eight gallons of rum, fifty gallons of rum punch, thirty-four of wine, forty-six of beer, and two of cider – in a county with only 391 voters.”

19. “When George Washington ran for election to Virginia’s local assembly, the House of Burgesses, in 1758, his campaign team handed out twenty-eight gallons of rum, fifty gallons of rum punch, thirty-four of wine, forty-six of beer, and two of cider – in a county with only 391 voters.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell the great stories of 19th-century science, but to bring them vividly to life.”

20. “By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell the great stories of 19th-century science, but to bring them vividly to life.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “Anyone who started a quarrel had to atone for it by buying a dish of coffee for everyone present.”

21. “Anyone who started a quarrel had to atone for it by buying a dish of coffee for everyone present.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “There were no musicians or dancers, for Plato believed that educated men ought to be capable of entertaining themselves by “speaking and listening in turns in an orderly manner.”

22. “There were no musicians or dancers, for Plato believed that educated men ought to be capable of entertaining themselves by “speaking and listening in turns in an orderly manner.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “Image of a Roman wax tablet, which looks very like an iPad.”

23. “Image of a Roman wax tablet, which looks very like an iPad.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “In the United States radio listeners were gathered up by networks that saw them as consumers to be sold to; in Britain they were the masses to be instructed and improved; in Germany they were the people to be indoctrinated and misled.”

24. “In the United States radio listeners were gathered up by networks that saw them as consumers to be sold to; in Britain they were the masses to be instructed and improved; in Germany they were the people to be indoctrinated and misled.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “At the time there were no printing presses and no paper.”

25. “At the time there were no printing presses and no paper.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “Post Horses and Conveyances of every description may be ordered by the electric telegraph to be in readiness on the arrival of a train, at either Paddington or Slough Station.”

26. “Post Horses and Conveyances of every description may be ordered by the electric telegraph to be in readiness on the arrival of a train, at either Paddington or Slough Station.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “A particularly important use of codes a was by banks. Worries about the security of telegraphic money transfers.”

27. “A particularly important use of codes a was by banks. Worries about the security of telegraphic money transfers.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “One survey of American newspapers found that the number of articles written by papers’ own writers increased from 25 percent to 45 percent between the 1820s and 1850s.”

28. “One survey of American newspapers found that the number of articles written by papers’ own writers increased from 25 percent to 45 percent between the 1820s and 1850s.”

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Tom Standage Quote: “Drinks have had a closer connection to the flow of history than is generally acknowledged, and a greater influence on its course. Understanding the ramifications of who drank what, and why, and where they got it from, requires the traversal of many disparate and otherwise unrelated fields: the histories of agriculture, philosophy, religion, medicine, technology, and commerce.”

29. “Drinks have had a closer connection to the flow of history than is generally acknowledged, and a greater influence on its course. Understanding the ramifications of who drank what, and why, and where they got it from, requires the traversal of many disparate and otherwise unrelated fields: the histories of agriculture, philosophy, religion, medicine, technology, and commerce.”

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