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- For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
- Alice Kahn
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)
- This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
- Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 2008
- Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
- Max Frisch
- Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
- Putt's Law
- Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
- For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
- There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
- Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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