It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

One has to look out for engineers-they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power, as Heidegger believes, but also in the fact that it lacks meaning. Why? and To what purpose? are questions that technology does not ask itself.

Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.

No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.