This weeks’s quotes were mostly devoted to inventions and technology. We wrap things up with the oft-noted idea that technology has a bit of the Frankenstein monster in it…

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- Carl Sagan

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B.F. Skinner

It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
- T.S. Eliot, about radio

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
- Isaac Asimov

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
- Karl Marx

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
- Omar Bradley

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man – the airplane, the automobile, the computer – says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
- Mark Kennedy