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What hath God wrought?

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

Each year, it seems, larger and more daunting mountains of text rise from the lush lowlands of visual reproduction.

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make money so that I can afford to go on creating more inventions.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They came about by hard work.