The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. – Havelock Ellis
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. – Warren G. Bennis
You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers. – Walter Lippmann
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. – Eric Hoffer
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. – Alfred North Whitehead
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines. – Erich Fromm
Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools. – Henry David Thoreau
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press3. – Alice Kahn
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. – Oscar Wilde
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. – Alan Kay
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. – Carl Sagan
Bill Gates is a very rich man today… and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions. – Dave Barry
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. – Ambrose Bierce
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. – Jean Arp
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose. – Andy Rooney
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. – William Gibson
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. – John Perry Barlow
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. – Edward R. Murrow
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. – Fred Allen
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. – Theodor Adorno
