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- Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
- Max Frisch
- The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
- Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876
- The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
- The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed)
- The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The future is much like the present, only longer.
- Dan Quisenberry
- The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
- John Sladek
- The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
- Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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