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Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back read more
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make read more
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make money so that I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. read more
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of read more
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, read more
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best. Life's most soothing things are sweet music and a child's goodnight.
Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best. Life's most soothing things are sweet music and a child's goodnight.
