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