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Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984)
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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
-Eric Hoffer
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
-Aldous Huxley
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 The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Inaugural Address
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Through radio I look forward to a united states of the world. Radio is standardizing the peoples of the earth, English will become the universal language because it is predominantly the language of the ether. The most important aspect of radio is its sociological influence
-Arthur Edwin Kennelly, 1926
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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.
-Arthur Koestler
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-John Lachs
In Love with Life: Reflections on the Joy of Living and Why We Hate to Die
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A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.
-Richard Livingstone
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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
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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools.
-Marshall McLuhan
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A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricatural. Our world is a world of things.... What we dread most, in the face of the impending d
-Henry Miller
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, preface, 1945
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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.
-Lewis Mumford
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
-Lewis Mumford
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We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.
-John Naisbitt
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O misery, misery, mumble and moan!
Someone invented the telephone,
And interrupted a nation's slumbers,
Ringing wrong but similar numbers.
-Ogden Nash
Look What You Did, Christopher
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The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer
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I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
N.B.: This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer, On the invention of the atom bomb
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Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
-George Orwell
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It may be that in the future the great intellectual struggle will be waged between the Christian faith and the scientific world view. The opponents, of course, will not be science and technology in themselves, but the various philosophies nurtured by the modern climate of opinion and reinforced by the misuse of the fruits of technology.
-D. R. G. Owen
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The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him.
-Pius XII Pacelli
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Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.
-Octavio Paz
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There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
-Georges Pompidou
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One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
-Terry Pratchett
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-John Renesch
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Books about Technology
