Herbert Marcuse on technology

In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things⁠—opposition and adornment, outcry and resignation. But it was also the appearance of the realm of freedom: the refusal to behave.

Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.

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

Albert Einstein1879–1955

• Science

The function of RAM is to give us guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest, most tumescent MEMORY. This is important, because with today’s complex software, the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages. So the bottom line is, if you’re a guy, you cannot have enough RAM.

Dave Barryborn 1947

• Dave Barry

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

Dave Barryborn 1947Cyberspace (1996)

• Dave Barry