The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019
Karel Zeman (1910–1989) Czech film director, artist and animator
Člověk si vytvořil grandiózní svět techniky, z kterého jde často hrůza a strach... Naštěstí to není jen technika, která určuje dění světa a způsob života. <br class="br">Quoted on the website of the Karel Zeman Museum in Prague (in English http://www.muzeumkarlazemana.cz/en/karel-zeman/quotes and Czech http://www.muzeumkarlazemana.cz/cz/karel-zeman/citaty).
“Being on the "Hold" is the technological equivalent of purgatory.”
Michael Crichton book A Case of Need
A Case of Need (1968)
“It is a cowardice to not move forward in opportunity. We cannot live in a life devoid of danger.”
Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959) Nepali poet
जूवा (Gambling)
Phil Brown (footballer) (1959) English association football player and manager
29-Jun-2005, Radio Derby
I think he's covered all the angles there.
“Virtue, if not in action, is a vice,
And, when we move not forward, we go backward.”
Philip Massinger The Maid of Honour
The Maid of Honour (c. 1621; printed 1632), Act I, scene i.
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
Aldous Huxley book Ends and Means
"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" in Adonis and the Alphabet (1956); later in Collected Essays (1959), p. 293
Source: Ends and Means
“Making… an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology.”
Robert M. Pirsig (1928–2017) American writer and philosopher
NPR Interview (1974)
Theodore Kaczynski book Industrial Society and Its Future
"Technology Is A More Powerful Social Force Than The Aspiration For Freedom", item 125
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
“You‘ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.”
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
May 1997, World Wide Developers Conference (online video) http://everystevejobsvideo.com/qa-with-steve-jobs-wwdc-1997/52:15/52:22 <br class="br">1990s
