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“Where are the cartographers of human purpose? Where are the visions of hopeful futures, of technology as a tool for human betterment and not a gun on hair trigger pointed at our heads?” Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
“Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“TELEPHONE, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself” JAY-Z, Decoded
“Darwin has interested us in the history of Nature’s Technology, i.e., in the formation of the organs of plants and animals, which organs serve as instruments of production for sustaining life.” Karl Marx, Das Kapital
“We've arranged a global 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.” Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
“The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“We can shoot rockets into space but we can’t cure anger or discontent.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“men have become the tools of their tools.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“True, it has conquered many diseases, broken the genetic code, and even placed human beings on the moon, and yet when a man of eighty is left in a room with two eighteen-year-old cocktail waitresses nothing happens.” Woody Allen, Side Effects
“INVENTOR, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.” Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
“We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.” Barack Obama, Inaugural Address
“we're kids in rompers, shouting with our play rockets and atoms, loud and alive. But one day Earth will be as Mars is today. This will sober us.” Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.” Dan Simmons, Hyperion
“Technology, which, linked to business interests, is presented as the only way of solving these problems, in fact proves incapable of seeing the mysterious network of relations between things and so sometimes solves one problem only to create others.” Pope Francis, Laudato si'
“which leads and drags on the world, is not locomotives, but ideas. Harness locomotives to ideas,—that is well done; but do not mistake the horse for the rider.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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