The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is read more

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that read more

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

What hath God wrought?

What hath God wrought?

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a read more

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a read more

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

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that read more

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.