Machine And Man -The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us.

~John Kenneth Galbraith

Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.

~William M. Kelly

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.

~Brian Eno

Use of advanced messaging technology does not imply an endorsement of western industrial civilization.

~Anonymous

Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.

~Ellen Goodman

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs. 

~E.F. Schumacher

Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.

~Robert M. Pirsig

It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

~Pearl S. Buck

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

~B.F. Skinner

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

~Saint-Exupery

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

~Arnold Glasow