Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Alan Kay

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

B. F. Skinner

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Andrew Brown

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Jimmy Carter

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Alfred North Whitehead

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

Steve Ballmer

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.

Jonathan Sacks

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Gertrude Stein

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Alvin Toffler

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

Linus Torvalds