Man And Machine - Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
~Eric Hoffer

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
~Carl Sagan


Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
~Alfred North Whitehead

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
~Erich Fromm

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
~Alan C. Kay

Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.
~Henry David ThoreauFor a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press 3.
~Alice Kahn

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
~Sydney J. Harris

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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