Application Quote by Henry David Thoreau

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing…

— Henrik Ibsen

“As we distance ourselves further from the natural world, we are increasingly surrounded by and dependent on our own inventions. We become enslaved by…

— David Suzuki

“inventions have eliminated so much of distance and time; for better, for worse, we are now each of us part of the surge and…

— Vera Brittain

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

— Anonymous

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

— Karl Marx

The problems plain to see, too much technology. Machines to save our lives, machines dehumanize.

— Styx

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

— Voltaire

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

— John Stuart Mill

It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of…

— Vaclav Havel

“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself.”

— Kevin Kelly

“Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today we feel very strongly that if we can take anything out of…

— Ashley Montagu

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

— Duke of Wellington