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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.
-John Ruskin
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Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures
-Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Terre des Hommes (translated into English as Wind, Sand, and Stars), 1939
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I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.
-E. F. [Ernst Friedrich] Schumacher
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
-E. F. [Ernst Friedrich] Schumacher
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If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification.
-William Bradford Shockley
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Technology...is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
-C.P. (Charles Percy) Snow, "New York Times", March 15, 1971
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Kranzberg
-Edward Tenner
Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
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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
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Technology is no match for human error.
-Torley
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If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
-Mark Twain
A majestic literary fossil. In: Twain M. The
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Technology does not drive change -- it enables change.
-Source Unknown
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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.
-Source Unknown
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Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you.
-Source Unknown
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You ask about the important things to keep in mind: same as ever, with a task-based twist: what are the users trying to accomplish, what does the business need them to successfully accomplish, and what will the technology allow? If you can balance these three forces, you'll have a solid product.
-Christina Wodtke
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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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Books about Technology
