Martin Heidegger Quotes

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

The liberating force of scientific knowledge is objectively expressed in the great achievements of technology. Whoever possesses technology has power of the earth and men. As a result of this, hitherto unknown forms of inequality have arisen between those who possess knowledge and those who are simple users of technology.

... as the world rapidly becomes a civilization of machines, the masters of machines will increasingly be the ones in control of the world.

Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.

Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users.

The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into ... the instrumentalization of man.

Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?

Try to master technology instead of it mastering you.

For the sake of my children and grandchildren, I hope that the human talent for self-destruction can be successfully controlled, or at least channelled into productive forms, but I doubt it. I think we are moving into extremely volatile and dangerous times, as modern electronic technologies give mankind almost unlimited powers to play with its own psychopathology as a game.

The computers are in control. We just live in their world.

It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control it-as if technology were an irrepressible force of nature to which we must meekly submit.

I often feel like a dinosaur. I don't get the technology thing at all. I was on the Internet not long ago for Barnes and Noble, and people were ringing up from all over the world - Australia, Canada, France. I experienced it as an informal chat, which was pleasant, but I couldn't quite take it in. It had a strong element of unreality. I can't be bothered to switch to a computer at my age, though I might get along with e-mail, which sounds appealing.

To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master.

I'm not a jack of all trades; I'm a master of many. I don't feel there is anything I can't do if I want to.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.

The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.

Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.

It's a double-headed coin, because technology is a convenience but it's stifled our attention spans. At one time, albums had songs that were like ten minutes long, with different variations and chord progressions and changes.

A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity.

Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has come out with the clear statement that we have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable.

We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and make him a servile thing in a vast industrial complex. . . . This means we must subject the machine - technology - to control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money.