Choices Quote by Charles A. Reich

“To be able to possess a machine in such a way is the ultimate show of determination and awareness. It makes one realize that…

— Garth Stein

We control the machine. At one point the machine controlled us.

— Karim Rashid

“To understand the dominating role played by technics in modern civilization….one must explain the culture that was ready to use them and profit by…

— Lewis Mumford

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do…

— Isaac Asimov

It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless…

— Donald A. Norman

“We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

People are not machines. And we have to respect that.

— Jack Conte

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?

— Nicholas Negroponte

“key to winning the race is not to compete against machines but to compete with machines.”

— Donald A. Norman

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

— Havelock Ellis

Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot outwit our successors. So unless we are absolutely…

— Robert J. Sawyer

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

— Stephen Hawking