Whenever there is excess, an ax remedies it.

We don’t have the option of turning away from the future. No one gets to vote on whether technology is going to change our lives.

I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

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

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

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

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.

Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

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

I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.

Industrialism is the religion with “the machine” as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

’Tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.