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

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

Whatever the pace of this technological revolution may be, the direction is clear: the lower rungs of the economic ladder are being lopped off.

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

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.

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

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of these two has the grander view?

Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.

The art of invention grows young with the things invented.

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

All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.

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

Whenever there is excess, an ax remedies it.