“The arts and humanities profoundly affect the ways we see and experience our human world (..)
When you think about what Britain is really good at - higher education, research - those are right at the top of the tree. But the other thing we're so great at is the creative industries, and the creative economies and the cultural life of this country, which has intangible positive rippling effects across the world in terms of the way other countries see us, in the way they trust us. We are in austere times, no one can escape that, but those who think it's all a question of just investing in manufacturing, or just investing in engineering or the hard sciences, really need to wake up to the realities of our current way of life." Professor Rick Rylance
The Human World: The Arts and Humanities in our Time (2013-218)
“Then what would we be fighting for?”
A segunda citação é bastante mais recente, e é de um amante do cruzamento entre a tecnologia e a arte, Steve Jobs, que disse alguns meses antes de morrer,
“It is in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough, it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.”
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