“It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.”

“if we lose our human values by having everything mechanied, then machines will dictate our lives.”

“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”

“...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone...”

“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”

“Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace goi...”

“It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.”

“In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.”

“Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the u...”

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”