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Technology Quotes by Barry Commoner
- Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic fault. While providing…
- Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
- What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production…
- All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them.
- Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult…
- The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been…
- What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost…
- World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
- It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure…
- The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
More Technology Quotes
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes… — David Boies
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow. — Margaret Atwood
- Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we… — J. G. Ballard
- The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. — John Perry Barlow
- Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. — John Perry Barlow
- Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions. — Dave Barry