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

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

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

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

Whenever there is excess, an ax remedies it.

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

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

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

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

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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

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