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Daily Inspiration Quote by Mark Goddard

"Life is about family and technology"

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A line like "Life is about family and technology" lands less like a philosophy and more like a snapshot of what it feels like to age through the 20th century and wake up in the 21st. Coming from Mark Goddard, an actor whose career is tied to television and sci-fi inflected pop culture, the pairing isn’t random. It’s the two forces that both anchor and rewire a life: the people who made you, and the tools that increasingly mediate how you stay in touch with them.

The intent is blunt, almost disarmingly domestic. Not "love" or "purpose" or any of the usual Hallmark abstractions, but two nouns you can point to on a kitchen table: kinship and devices. That plainness is the trick. By refusing poetic language, the quote mimics the way technology has flattened grand feelings into daily logistics: a birthday remembered because of a calendar alert; a relationship maintained through a screen; a family argument that happens in a group chat rather than a living room.

There’s subtext, too, in the order. Family comes first, as value and as origin story. Technology follows as the unavoidable second act: it can extend family (calls across distance, photos, medical advances), but it also competes with it for attention, time, and even authority. Spoken by an actor - someone whose work depends on mass media’s evolution - it reads as a personal reconciliation with the modern bargain: we build our lives around who we love, then spend the rest of it learning the machines that change how loving happens.

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Mark Goddard

Mark Goddard (born July 24, 1936) is a Actor from USA.

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