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Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

—Alvin Toffler, 1970

I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?

—Andy Warhol, 1963

All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.

—David Brower, 1992

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

—Edward O. Wilson, 2009

Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.

—Elizabeth Charles, 1862

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

—Bayard Rustin, 1965

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

—Isaac Asimov, 1988

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.

—Bill Gates, 1995

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

—Victor Hugo, 1862

Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.

—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990

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

—Elbert Hubbard, 1911

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

—Roger Ebert, 1998

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

—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC