"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."
--Carl Sagan
"Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other."
--C.P. Snow
"I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind! "
--Author Unknown
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
--Aldous Huxley
"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."
--Mark Kennedy
"The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action,"
--Marshall McLuhan
"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."
--Edward Teller
It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
--T.S. Eliot
"Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools."
--Henry David Thoreau
"Whereas knights of old wore armor of plate, the modern knights of the air wear the invisible but magic armor of confidence in technology"
--Mike Spick
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