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9 years ago "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." - Albert Einstein "The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life." - Andrew Brown "Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." - Gertrude Stein "The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." - B. F. Skinner "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." - Elbert Hubbard
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_technology.html
similar to Civilization techs
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive. - George F. Will
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. - Che Guevara
Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it. I want that to be clear! - Augusto Pinochet
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas? - Joseph Stalin
People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got. - Richard Nixon
Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance. - Mao Zedong
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power. - William Gaddis
Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty. - Leo Rosten
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. - Herbert Hoover
It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat. - Arthur Mutambara
A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it. - George W. Bush
This year - a factory of semiconductors. Next year - a factory of whole conductors! - Todor Zhivkov
"There are lies, damn lies, and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you need to concentrate on." -Robert Strauss
"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good." -Bill Gates
“It takes these very simple-minded instructions—‘Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number’––but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.” - Steve Jobs
“We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves." - Steve Jobs
"Creativity is just connecting things." - Steve Jobs
"People don’t know what they want until you show it to them." - Steve Jobs
“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.” - Steve Jobs
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates
"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good." - Bill Gates
"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana." - Bill Gates