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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
What hath God wrought?
What hath God wrought?
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and read more
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
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.
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make read more
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make money so that I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic read more
Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
