Children Quote by Sherry Turkle

Machines Need to be Productive. People Need to be Effective.

— James William Benson

Machines help us do things more quickly and efficiently, but they can also destroy some community activities. Machines can also throw the weakest people…

— Jean Vanier

As a society I think we are going to be much better off by having machines that can work in conjunction with humans to…

— Jeff Dean

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

— Duke of Wellington

We're beginning the age in which machines attached to our bodies will make us stronger and more efficient,

— Hugh Herr

I want the humans to be able to hold their own against the strength of the machines.

— John Landgraf

FIRE Is Like A Good Servant But A Bad Master: Fire, Like Any Other Man-made Tool Or Device, Will Serve Human Well Only when…

— Pacifiersucker

Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk…

— Mark Weiser

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real…

— Frank Herbert

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

— Anonymous

“We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.

— W. H. Auden