Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.

The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.

A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?

If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

The belly is the teacher of the arts and bestower of invention.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

When poets don’t know what to say and have completely given up on the play, just like a finger, they lift the machine and the spectators are satisfied.

The civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.