“Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.”
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“A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.”
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
“Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?”
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.”
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.”
“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”
“The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.”
“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.”
“Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.”
“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”
“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.”
“Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.”
“It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.”
“For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.”
“If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.”
“There are three roads to ruin women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.”
“Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.”
“People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.”
“Defect-free software does not exist.”