If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future? |

Any teacher who can be replaced by a machine, should be. |

I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. |

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. |

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. |

Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets. |

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila. |

Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send. |

The screen provides a refuge, a mediated world that is more predictable, more tractable, and above all safer than the recalcitrant world of things.
We flock to the virtual because the real demands too much of us. |

Men have become the tools of their tools. |

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. |

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens. |

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts. |

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.' |

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. |

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. |

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. |

A technology is not an independent or alien object, it complements integrally our sensory and cognitive system; as a medium, it conditions not only communication modes but also the way we perceive and conceive our environment. When these ratios change men change. |

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. |

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. |

Information is power. |