One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. – Elbert Hubbard
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke
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, New York Times, 15 March 1971
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, about radio
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 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, Innovations: Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. – Albert Einstein
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. – Aldous Huxley
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
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
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, Perspectives, 1966
We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us. – John Kenneth Galbraith
Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid. – William M. Kelly
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,” The Washington Post, January 1987
It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times. – Pearl S. Buck
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. – B.F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement, 1969
