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Arthur C. Clarke1 quote
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. — Arthur C. Clarke · 1973Christian Louis Lange1 quote
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. — Christian Louis Lange · 1921Douglas Adams1 quote
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. — Douglas Adams · 2001Martin Heidegger1 quote
Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. — Martin Heidegger · 1954Max Frisch1 quote
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. — Max Frisch · 1957Melvin Kranzberg1 quote
Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral. — Melvin Kranzberg · 1986Neil Postman1 quote
Introduce the alphabet to a culture and you change its cognitive habits, its social relations, its notions of community, history and religion. Introduce the printing press with movable type, and you do the same. Introduce speed-of-light transmission of images and you make a cultural revolution. Without a vote. Without polemics. Without guerrilla resistance. Here is ideology, pure if not serene. Here is ideology without words, and all the more powerful for their absence. All that is required to make it stick is a population that devoutly believes in the inevitability of progress. — Neil Postman · 1985Samir1 quote
No, not again. I...why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam? I swear to God, one of these days, I just kick this piece of shit out the window! — Samir · 1999Satya Nadella1 quote
We need to ask ourselves not only what computers can do, but what computers should do. — Satya Nadella · 2018Stewart Brand1 quote
Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. — Stewart Brand · 1987Willa Cather1 quote
Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things. — Willa Cather · 1929