How 10 Of Our Greatest Thinkers
Throughout History Explain Technology
Today
“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”
– Alan Kay
“Getting information from the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.”
– Mitchell Kapor
“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them” – Antoine de Saint-Expurey
“It has become appallingly clear obviously that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
– Albert Einstein
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
– Aldous Huxley
“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”
– B.F. Skinner
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
– Arthur C. Clarke
“Men have become tools of their tools.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.” – Richard P. Feynman
“Everybody gets so much all day long that they lose their common sense.”
– Gertrude Stein