Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

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

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

I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.

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

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

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.

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

I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

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

All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.

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