Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose. Andy Rooney
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world. Jimmy Carter
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. Dave Barry
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? Al Boliska
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. Alfred North Whitehead
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. William Gibson
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. Frank Lloyd Wright
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. Richard P. Feynman
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. John Perry Barlow
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. Freeman Dyson
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. Arnold H. Glasow
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. Edward R. Murrow
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. R. Buckminster Fuller
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. Fred Allen
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. B. F. Skinner
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. Graham Greene
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. Theodor Adorno
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. John Stuart Mill
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. R. Buckminster Fuller