“The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.”

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”

“Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented. ”

“Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.”

“Indeed, woman can be a machine run wild, or a machine can be a better, more subjugated, and efficient woman.”

“Man has created technology. Technology has created man; what we are today. Electricity is our way of life. Without it many would perish.”