“Inevitably modern technology has polarized society. It has polluted the environment.”

“The advent of modern communication technology has simply facilitated the rapid dissemination of increasingly trivial information.”

“From society's standpoint, modern science and technology appears Janus-faced : It has given us wealth in one sense, and poverty in another; it has harnessed nature to man's basic needs in ways and to extents undreamed - of only a few decades ago, but it has fostered a continuingly lowered "quality of life."”

“It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air!”

“School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.”

“Until now a culture has been a mechanical fate for societies, the automatic interiorization of their own technologies.”

“Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.”

“It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”

“Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document. But we have a long way to go to get our modern privacy laws in line with modern technology.”

“Terrorism has long been a tactic, but modern technology allows a few small men with outsized rage to murder innocents on a horrific scale.”