Technological Efficiency Quotes

The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work.

We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

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

The way we use technology is completely wasteful. We duplicate many vacuum cleaners, tools; In the future we will make the best of equipment and make it available to everyone.

Avoid the spectacle of technology and instead focus on technology and science solving real problems.

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do selfish, greedy, intolerant and violent things, scientific technology will provide you with by far the most efficient way of doing so. But if you want to do good, to solve the world's problems, to progress in the best value-laden sense, once again, there is no better means to those ends than the scientific way.

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.