| Author |
Quotes |
| Adam Smith | The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster. |
| Antoine De Saint | The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. |
| Calvin Tomkins | Each year, it seems, larger and more daunting mountains of text rise from the lush lowlands of visual reproduction. |
| Carl Sagan | 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 | We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. |
| Carrie P Snow | Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. |
| E F Schumacher | The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. |
| E F Schumacker | Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. |
| Evan Esar | Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. |
| Flip Wilson | You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. |
| Gertrude Stein | Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. |
| Herbert Simon | What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. |
| Isaac Asimov | Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once. |
| John Spencer | The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology. |
| Samuel F B Morse | What hath God wrought? |
| Thomas Alva Edison | I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make money so that I can afford to go on creating more inventions. |
| Thomas Alva Edison | I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They came about by hard work. |
| Thomas Alva Edison | I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator. |
| Thomas Alva Edison | Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power. |
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