Technology
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
George Orwell (1903-1950) British novelist, essayist, and critic.
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) American nuclear physicist.
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher.
Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-Swiss-U.S. scientist.
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Preeminent leader of Indian nationalism.
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American philosopher and author.
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
Marshall Mcluhan (1911-1980) Canadian communications theorist and educator.
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German-Swiss philosopher and writer.