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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease. (Allard J)
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment. (Allard J)
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. (Allard J)
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy. (Allard J)
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible. (Allard J)
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed. (Allard J)
We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race. (Allard J)
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. (Allard J)
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb. (Allard J)
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. (Allard J)
The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him. (Allard J)
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning. (Allard J)
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. (Allard J)
In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them. (Allard J)
I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction. (Allard J)
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. (Allard J)
Technology does not drive change -- it enables change. (Allard J)
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. (Allard J)
Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you. (Allard J)
Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them there and they don't get out and interact with actual flesh-and-blood humans -- you know the answer before I say it -- that's not good. (Allard J)
For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes. (Allard J)
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