Have you ever looked inside one of those things [computers]? It's a whole hierarchy of angels- all on slats. And those little tubes-those are miracles.

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it-whether it be a factory or a government.

Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.

Technology ... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are

A steam engine has always got character. It's the most human of all man-made machines.

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.

As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong by history, culture, deeds, association, and affection.

It is a commonplace of modern technology that there is a high measure of certainty that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

The miraculousness of technology is a popular article of Western faith.