Quote #3
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
More from Silas Bent
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Technology is a sprinter, the Law is a marathon runner.
- Technology and the machine resurrected San Francisco while Pompeii still slept in her ashes.
- A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.
- For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
- For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
- The general precept of any product is that simple things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.