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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." | |
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Mark Kennedy
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| "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
magic." | |
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Arthur C. Clarke
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| "Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men,
but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary
man." | |
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E. B. White
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| "Correct me if I"m wrong - the gizmo is connected to the flingflang
connected to the watzis, watzis connected to the doo-dad connected to the
ding dong." | |
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Patrick B. Oliphant
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| "For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the
quality of life, please press three." | |
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Alice Kahn
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| "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over
public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." | |
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Richard P. Feynman
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| "Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong
reasons." | |
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R. Buckminster Fuller
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| "If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button
finger." | |
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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| "If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence,
our servant may prove to be our executioner." | |
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General Omar Nelson Bradley
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| "Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do
today"s jobs with yesterday"s tools." | |
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Marshall McLuhan
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| "Rapid technological advancement may produce problems and challenges
for business when their products or services are rendered obsolete
virtually overnight. The salesman who has properly learned his craft will
have transferable skills perfectly adaptable to the emerging technology.
The benefit of having transferable skills in such a volatile marketplace
is readily apparent. It ís insurance against unemployment." | |
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Dan Brent Burt
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| "Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient
means for going backwards." | |
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Aldous Huxley
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| "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological
criminal." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps
the greatest of God"s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts
and of sciences." | |
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Freeman Dyson
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| "Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The
fog of information can drive out knowledge." | |
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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| "Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don"t have
to experience it." | |
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Max Frisch
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| "Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over
everything, except over technology." | |
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John Tudor
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| "Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one
hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other." | |
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Carrie P. Snow
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| "The first rule of any technology used in a business is that
automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency.
The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will
magnify the inefficiency." | |
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Bill Gates
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| "The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today
are no longer the satisfactions of primary needs or of archetypal wishes,
but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of
yesterday." | |
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Dennis Gabor
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| "The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be
self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with
technology." | |
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E. F. Schumacher
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| "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." | |
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Georges Pompidou
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| "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and
UNIX. We don"t believe this to be a coincidence." | |
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Jeremy S. Anderson
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| "We are the children of a technological age. We have found
streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer
the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not
changed..." | |
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Lawrence Clark Powell
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| "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." | |
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Lewis Mumford
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