“Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.” - Daniel J. Boorstin
“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.” - Frank Lloyd Wright
“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.” - Max Frisch
“Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.” - Jimmy Carter
“Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.” - Ambrose Bierce
“They’re gonna be screwed once this whole internet fad is over!” - Dwight Schrute
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.” - William Gibson
“Really? You need a calculator for that?” - Several of my geometry students
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” - Elbert Hubbard
Ha ha- I put the same Elbert Hubbard quote on my blog. It's a good one, gets to the core of the problem that yes, technology is great. But a human brain is better in the end.
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