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"Television is the triumph of machine over people"
Fred Allen, Comedian
"We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history, the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion"
Fred Allen, Comedian
"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy"
Joseph Campbell, Author
"We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't"
Helmut Jahn, Architect
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done"
Andy Rooney, Journalist
"Anything on paper is obsolete!"
Craig Bruce, Writer
"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner"
Omar N. Bradley, Soldier
"Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now"
John Carmack, Scientist
"People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too"
Christopher Morley, Author
"In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good!"
Michael Graves, Architect
"Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority"
Henri Poincare, Mathematician
"The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds"
Tadao Ando, Architect
"When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won"
Orville Wright, Inventor
"We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once"
Orville Wright, Inventor
"We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories"
Orville Wright, Inventor
"The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center"
Orville Wright, Inventor
"One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet"
Orville Wright, Inventor
"In our gliding experiments, we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind"
Orville Wright, Inventor
"In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power"
Orville Wright, Inventor
"A sudden dart, when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight"
Orville Wright, Inventor
"There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-It is an outdated method of getting power"
Alexandra Paul, Actress
"The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up"
Alexandra Paul, Actress
"I'm not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn't impress me when we can go to the moon"
Alexandra Paul, Actress
"In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium"
Loretta Young, Actress
"Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings"
Robert Collier, Author
"If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it"
Neil Armstrong, Astronaut
"I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did"
Neil Armstrong, Astronaut
"Technology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge"
Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian
"Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer"
Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist
"Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... And we are the people driving that change"
Daniel Keys Moran, Writer
"I have a computer screen near my seat, where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle, and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on, or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is"
Laurel Clark, Astronaut
"It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us"
Christian Lous Lange, Politician
"Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the economic-technical plane, has already more or less become reality"
Christian Lous Lange, Politician
"Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press"
Christian Lous Lange, Politician
"There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you"
Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist
"The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom"
C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian
"The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor"
Alvin Toffler, Author
"I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world"
Herbert Simon, Scientist
"Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible"
Alvin Toffler, Author
"If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air because the air coming out of the exhaust would be cleaner than the air going into the engine intake"
Dennis Weaver, Actor
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