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Technology Quotes

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. -Mark Kennedy. We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. -Carl Sagan. The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. -Antoine de Saint. 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. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.  No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. -Elbert Hubbard. 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. I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about total