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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

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

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

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

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.

Technology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.