Before we work on artificial intelligence, why don’t we do something about natural stupidity?

 —Steve Polyak

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

—Elbert Hubbard

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor, magnificent bungler! He can’t even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire, and 20 or 30 billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

 —Russell Baker

I had to make some optimistic assumptions to meet the revenue target. In week three, we’re visited by an alien named D’utox Inag who offers to share his advanced technology.

—Dilbert

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

—Richard P. Feynman

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

 —Aldous Huxley

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

 —Karl Marx

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

—Carl Sagan

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

—R. Buckminster Fuller

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

—Isaac Asimov

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.

—Max Frisch

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

 —Antoine Saint-Exupéry

God never made his work for man to mend.

—John Dryden