Albert Einstein Quotes on Technology
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Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.
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Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking. -- Einstein, fundraising telegram for the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, May 23, 1946, Einstein Archives, 40-11.
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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
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You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
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Every day, man is making bigger and better foolproof things, and every day, Nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think Nature is winning.