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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.
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Each year, it seems, larger and more daunting mountains of text rise from the lush lowlands of visual reproduction.
Each year, it seems, larger and more daunting mountains of text rise from the lush lowlands of visual reproduction.
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.
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.
What hath God wrought?
What hath God wrought?
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 never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that read more
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They read more
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They came about by hard work.
