Quotes About Appropriate Technology

#1. The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.

Alvin Toffler

#2. We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last!

Stewart Brand

#3. In order to give these customers what they want within an appropriate timescale, we are committed to developing a broad range of technologies-including plug-in hybrid, electric vehicle and FCV, corresponding to the simultaneous diversification of energy sources.

Yoshikazu Tanaka

#4. Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

Freeman Dyson

#5. September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.

Robert Lowell

#6. The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world.

David Lee

#7. While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected ... to opt out when you need to.

Padmasree Warrior

#8. I become drunk as circumstances dictate.

Jack Vance

#9. Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises.

Orrin Woodward

#10. There's no justice in this world.

Frank Costello

#11. If today's arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies an instinctive repudiation of chaos and a longing to find the form appropriate to our times.

Oskar Schlemmer

#12. My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

K. Eric Drexler

#13. All events are but the consummation of preceding causes, clearly seen but not distinctly apprehended.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#14. The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of technology in need of an appropriate roadway.

Fritz Todt