Computers Quote by Jacques Ellul

Tools are not neutral. The computer is not a neutral tool.

— Ellen Ullman

A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal…

— Charles Babbage

Technology is neutral, but it all depends on the way we use it.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Technology is not neutral.

— Godfrey Reggio

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of…

— Charles Babbage

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Technology is nothing but an expression of human values. It's not neutral, it's not about efficiency, it's about people's values and their knowledge.

— Ramesh Srinivasan

To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is…

— Alfred Korzybski

Personally, I think neutral is just another way of saving your own ass at the expense of someone else's.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether…

— Noam Chomsky

The purpose creates the machine.

— Arthur Young