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.

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.

Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs and believes it civilization.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

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

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

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

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

As usual, what we call “progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

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

Refrigerators and television sets, or even rockets sent to the moon, do not change man into God.

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

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