“I am simply pointing out that at the rate at which we are going the whole genetic engineering technology will end up in the hands of the political system to be used for the complete control and subjugation of man.”

— U.G. Krishnamurti, book Mind is a Myth

Source: Mind is a Myth (1987), Ch. 4: There Is Nothing To Understand

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Indian philosopher 1918–2007

Derek Hitchins (1935) British systems engineer

Derek Hitchins (1995) cited in: Herbert Negele (2000) Systems engineering--a key to competitive advantage for all industries. p,166

“A major social problem we face today is how to control the political process that is eroding the free enterprise market system. Although I am pessimistic that we will in fact ever resolve this problem completely, we will surely never solve it unless we develop a viable positive theory of the political process. Such a political theory will not be complete until we also have developed a theory that explains why we get the results we do out of the mass media.”

Michael Jensen (1939) American economist

Michael C. Jensen, 'Toward a Theory of the Press,' in Economics and Social Institutions, Karl Brunner, Editor (Martinus Nijhoff Publishing Company, 1979).

“We should not be surprised that life, having subjugated the bulk of inert matter on Earth, would go on to subjugate technology, and bring it also under its reign of constant evolution.”

Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“If our engineers became politicians, Huawei would have collapsed. Engineers should focus on developing good products. They don't need to read about politics. What's the point of them caring about political issues? If our engineers are all out protesting, who is going to pay them?”

Ren Zhengfei (1944) Chinese businessman

Interview with the Economist (September 10, 2019)

“I found a man who claimed he used to be a radio engineer. And if he was an engineer, I was Albert Einstein’s mother, but at least he knew which end of a soldering iron was hot.”

Frederik Pohl (1919–2013) American science fiction writer and editor

The Knights of Arthur (p. 398)
Platinum Pohl (2005)

“Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.”

Karl Popper book The Poverty of Historicism

All that technology may say about ends is whether they are compatible with each other or realizable.
The Poverty of Historicism (1957) Ch. 22 The Unholy Alliance with Utopianism

“Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. (All that technology may say about ends is whether they are compatible with each other or realizable.)”

Karl Popper book The Poverty of Historicism

The Poverty of Historicism (1957) Ch. 22 The Unholy Alliance with Utopianism

“Are we out of step with the administration because we do not comport completely to their political point of view?… So they criticize us for it. It goes with the territory, and if we get a groundswell we begin to look at ourselves.”

Peter Jennings (1938–2005) News anchor

Criticism "goes with the territory"

“If we choose, we can use genetic engineering to alter the character of our offspring. …the motivation to do this will eventually become overwhelming.”

J. Doyne Farmer (1952) American physicist and entrepreneur (b.1952)

The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution (1995)

“I am simply pointing out that at the rate at which we are going the whole genetic engineering technology will end up in the hands of the political system to be used for the complete control and subjugation of man.”

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