By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs.

My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes up to 450.

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

I have a microwave fireplace. You can lay down in front of the fire all night in eight minutes.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

All about us the sense of disenchantment with technology appears to be growing. No one ... can ignore the fall of the engineer from the dizzying heights he once occupied... . with the coming of the environmental crisis, our relationship to society has changed. We cannot ... pretend that ... a hundred space spectaculars can restore things to what they were.

... it is clear that our survival and the salvaging of our environment are dependent on more technology, not less.