Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1973
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911I 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.
—Hugh Plat, 1595All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
—Max Born, 1968