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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The art of invention grows young with the things invented.

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

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

Civilization, a much-abused word, stands for a high matter quite apart from telephones and electric lights.

The civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.

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