E. F. Schumacher on technology

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius⁠—and a lot of courage⁠—to move in the opposite direction.

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.

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