Technology(116)

"Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed; it is the same as it has always been, since Callimachus administered the great library in Alexandrea."
Lawrence Clark Powell

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."
Carl Sagan

"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology."
Carl Sagan

"The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology."
E. F. Schumacher

"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."
B. F. Skinner

"The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster."
Adam Smith

"Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other."
Carrie P. Snow

"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."
Gene Spafford

"The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology."
John Spencer

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
Gertrude Stein