Quotes About Technology

I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon?

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.

Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent-protection.

The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'

There are three things a man must do before his life is done; Write two lines in APL, And make the buggers run.

Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.

Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.

Electronic man has no physical body.

The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature...

Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.

Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.

I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.

Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.