Learn Through Quotations

“Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.”

“Modern technology Owes ecology An apology.”

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”

“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”

“Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.”

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”

“Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.”

“Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?”

“Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.”

“God never made his work for man to mend.”

“It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.”

“Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.”

“Don't get smart alecksy With the galaxy Leave the atom alone.”

“The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.”

“The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.”

“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.”

“The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.”

“This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.”

“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.”

“I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind!”

“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”

“Use of advanced messaging technology does not imply an endorsement of western industrial civilization.”