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

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind!

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

Don't get smart alecksy With the galaxy Leave the atom alone.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

God never made his work for man to mend

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?