Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

I have a microwave fireplace. You can lay down in front of the fire all night in eight minutes.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes up to 450.

By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs.

We should now give some real thought to the possibility of reforming our technology in the directions of smallness, simplicity, and nonviolence.

There is scarcely a technical issue for which you cannot find expert witnesses of differing opinions.

More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow beings above everything else ... All our lauded technological progress - our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

I have never received a telephone call that justified the excitement and fuss of the electronics involved. If I can't see somebody I love, for instance, such as a daughter, or a son, I would rather receive a letter.

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us.

The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.

Technology is the knack of so organizing the world that we don't have to experience it.

Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.

The computer is down. I hope it's something serious.

Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

Humanity is acquiring the right technology for all the wrong reasons.