"If you believe that you are not a machine, but that I am (then) I do not know why you are reading this book"."

"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The d…"

"It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create…"

"Were we required to characterise this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Hero…"

"When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government."

"A blacksmith, Thomas Newcomen, in collaboration with a plumber, John Calley, produced the first commercially successf…"

"Leaving aside genetic surgery applied humans, I foresee that the coming century will place in our hands two other for…"

"Although it is not, abstractedly speaking, of importance to know who first made a most valuable experiment, or to wha…"

"It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet…"

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and …"