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

The art of invention grows young with the things invented.

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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

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

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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