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

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

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

You can steal a lot more with a computer than with a gun.

The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.

We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.

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

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

I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?

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

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

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.