Quotes

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
~ Arthur C. Clarke


Men have become the tools of their tools.
~ Henry David Thoreau


One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ~ Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923


Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.
~Ellen Goodman, "The Human Factor," The Washington Post, January 1987