"Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate."

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"Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate."

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"I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper."

Jack Kilby, American Scientist

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"Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"The multidimensional digital effects provide impressive advantages in terms of the speed of delivery, the quality of information for decision making, and the wisdom of digital workforce."

Pearl Zhu, American Author

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"Well, Naomi said cheerfully, "what's the worst that can happen? They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook."

Rachel Caine, Canadian Actress

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"Magic, like technology, is a tool."

Mercedes Lackey, American Author

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"A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence."

Godfrey Reggio, American Director

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"Advances in technology can be empowering, progressive and enriching. History has shown this across civilisations and societies. But it has also shown, and the present and future will continue to show, that it is foolish, risky, flawed and folly without us raising our individual and collective consciousness and mindfulness to accompany it - to ensure we use it shrewdly, kindly and wisely."

Rasheed Ogunlaru, British Motivational Speaker

Technology, Consciousness, Mindfulness, Ethics

"What will happen if we go to 0 day?...Everything has been wipe out from the technology?"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Technology, Future, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Information age. I guess I'm part of it, even if I can't remember how to use my iPhone from week to week, and have to learn how to send e-mails all over again every couple of years, and can't retain any profound technological knowledge about the computers I sometimes use."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Technology, Information, Learning, Memory

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"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition."

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"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur."

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"You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction."

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"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment."

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"Knowledge is the most democratic source of power."

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"Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it."

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