Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

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

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

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

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.