Famous Quotes

"It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance."

Barry Commoner on Technology

More quotes about Technology

• "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

  Albert Einstein on Technology

• "The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."

  Oscar Wilde on Technology

• "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

  Arthur C. Clarke on Technology

• "The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life."

  John F. Kennedy on Technology

• "I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours."

  John F. Kennedy on Technology

More quotes by Barry Commoner

• "Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art."

• "Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art."

• "The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II."

• "Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it."

• "The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die."