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| All of the biggest technological inventions created by man – the airplane, the automobile, the computer – says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. ~ Mark Kennedy |
| Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ~ Ambrose Bierce, |
Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.
~ Alan M. Eddison |
| It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. ~ Albert Einstein |
| One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ~ Elbert Hubbard, |
| For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. ~ Richard P. Feynman |
| If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright |
| 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. ~ Jean Arp |
| Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ~ Aldous Huxley |
| Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. ~ Max Frisch |
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| Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight? ~ Al Boliska |
| 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. ~ Lewis Mumford |
| 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. ~ T.S. Eliot |
| Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ~ C.P. Snow, |
Don’t get smart alecksy
With the galaxy
Leave the atom alone.
~ E.Y. Harburg |
| The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith |
| The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. ~ E.F. Schumacher, |
| 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. ~ John F. Kennedy |
| 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. ~ Dennis Gabor, |
| 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. ~ Jonas Salk |
| Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain. ~ J.K. Rowling |
| As far as I’m concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza. ~ From the movie |
| I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind! ~ Author Unknown |
| The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. ~ Karl Marx |
| The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~ Isaac Asimov, |
| When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it – whether it be a factory or a government. ~ Alexander Chase, |
| We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith |
| I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse. ~ Brian Eno, |
| Use of advanced messaging technology does not imply an endorsement of western industrial civilization. ~ Anonymous email sig line |
| Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor. ~ Ellen Goodman, "The Human Factor," |