Entry 190

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Albert Einstein

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

C.S. Lewis

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Tennessee Williams

We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice.

Woody Allan

In contrast to people, computers double their ability every 18 months. There therefore exists the possibility that machines will develop intelligence and dominate the world.

Stephen Hawking

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

pity this busy monster, manunkind,

not. Progress is a comfortable disease:

your victim (death and life safely beyond)

plays with the bigness of his littleness

--- electrons deify one razorblade

into a mountainrange; lenses extend

unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish

returns on its unself.

                          A world of made

is not a world of born --- pity poor flesh

and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this

fine specimen of hypermagical

ultraomnipotence. We doctors know

a hopeless case if --- listen: there's a hell

of a good universe next door; let's go

e.e. cummings