“The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.”
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“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.”
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
“With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.”
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”
“We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.”
“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
“The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.”
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
“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.”
“Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.”
“Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.”
“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”
“Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.”
“While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.”
“I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.”
“I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.”
“Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.”
“Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.”
“The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.”
“Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.”
“The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.”
“It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.”