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Alan C. Kay
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

Alan M. Eddison
Modern technologyOwes ecologyAn apology.

Albert Einstein
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Aldous Huxley
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Alexander Chase, Perspectives, 1966
When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

Alice Kahn
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

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Use of advanced messaging technology does not imply an endorsement of western industrial civilization.

Arnold Glasow
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

Arthur C. Clarke
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Author Unknown
I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind!

B.F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement, 1969
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

C.P. Snow, New York Times, 15 March 1971
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Carl Sagan
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Carl Sagan
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Dennis Gabor, Innovations: Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful, 1973
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

E.Y. Harburg, "Leave the Atom Alone," 1957
Don't get smart alecksyWith the galaxyLeave the atom alone.

Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Ellen Goodman, "The Human Factor," The Washington Post, January 1987
Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.

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