Quotes from Kirkpatrick Sale

Everyone is shy --- it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come first.

The concerns and methods vary, but there is to it all, at bottom, a message that is unmistakably Luddistic: beware the technological juggernaut, reckon the terrible costs, understand the worlds being lost in the world being gained, reflect on the price of the machine and its systems on your life, pay attention to the natural world and its increasing destruction, resist the seductive catastrophe of industrialism.

The picture is perfectly clear: the entire economy is fueled not by profit, not by production, but by debt. Debt, moreover, that no one is working on paying back and that everyone needs to believe—this is the pipe dream that sustains the whole charade—will certainly be paid by future generations.

C)ybernetics, the science of computers, comes from the Greek kubernetes, helmsman or governor, meaning simply that the machine is in charge.