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

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
- Abigail Van Buren

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
- Jonas Salk

In times like these men should utter nothing for which they would not be willingly responsible through time and in eternity.
- Abraham Lincoln

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
- Richard P. Feynman

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it’s addressed to someone else.
- Ivern Ball

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?  A terrible thing:  no one to blame.
- Erica Jong

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
- Josiah Charles Stamp

Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
- Thomas Szasz

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
- John F. Kennedy

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

We have the Bill of Rights.  What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.
- Bill Maher

It’s a question of discipline. When you’ve finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet.
- The Little Prince