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

Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs and believes it civilization.

Whenever there is excess, an ax remedies it.

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

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.

The art of invention grows young with the things invented.

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

The belly is the teacher of the arts and bestower of invention.

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

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

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

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

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.