Laura Esquivel Quotes

There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

A completely industrialized society is of no consequence to me.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

The machines, which mark the triumph of science, become, by reason of the antithetic conditions of the social plexus, instruments which impoverish millions and millions of artisans and free peasants.

I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

The human-made world is mostly beyond our comprehension. Our daily survival depends on seemingly magical gizmos that provide our food, water, clothing, comfort, transportation, education, well-being, and amusement.

I believe that people are too complacent about technology.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

As a society, we are underinvesting resources in research on the societal implications of AI technologies.

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

We cannot be Neanderthal in a high-tech world.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam will make a great change in the situation of man.

Isn't it strange that as technology advances, the quality of life frequently declines.

… post-industrial society