Quotes

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

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

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
-Evan Esar

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
-Herbert Simon

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make money so that I can afford to go on creating more inventions
-Thomas Alva Edison

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
-Thomas Alva Edison

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
-Antoine De Saint

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

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
-Flip Wilson

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
-Isaac Asimov

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
-Thomas Alva Edison

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
-Oscar Wilde

Each year, it seems, larger and more daunting mountains of text rise from the lush lowlands of visual reproduction.
-Calvin Tomkins

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

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
-Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
-Thomas Alva Edison

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

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 Schumacker

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

What hath God wrought?
-Samuel F B Morse

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best. Life's most soothing things are sweet music and a child's goodnight.
-Thomas Alva Edison