#techno

The Internet is the Petri dish of humanity. We can't control what grows in it, but we don't have to watch either. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#human-behavior #human-condition #human-race #humanity-and-society #internet

Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#force #gun #humor #might_makes_right #technology

But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's. ↗

— Kate Morton

#irony #technology #television #theatres #funny

There is a world out there, so new, so random and disassociated that it puts us all in danger. We talk online, we ‘friend’ each other when we don’t know who we are really talking to – we fuck strangers. We mistake almost anything for a relationship, a community of sorts, and yet, when we are with our families, in our communities, we are clueless, we short-circuit and immediately dive back into the digitized version – it is easier, because we can be both our truer selves and our fantasy selves all at once, with each carrying equal weight. ↗

— A.M. Homes

#technology #equality

TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#technology #humor

Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#humor #sex #technology #technophobes #wit

Technology doesn’t change people’s basic needs or their natures. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#technology #change

History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses. ↗

— michael p naughton

#technological-progress #technology #business

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#cars #conscious #dumping #food #homes

Best not to take, yet doubt its strength, A leash with Demons at its length. ↗

— McKenzie Bodkin

#hubris #power #technology #love