#2,149

The technician speaks to the layman like an insolent sorcerer.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 350

#1,982

To hope that the growing vulnerability of a world increasingly integrated by technology will not demand a total despotism is mere foolishness.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 322

#1,981

Between the dictatorship of technology and the technology of dictatorship, man no longer finds a crack through which he can slip away.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 322

#1,979

Dictatorship is the technification of politics.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 322

#1,950

The specialist, when they examine his basic notions, bristles as if before a blasphemy and trembles as if in an earthquake.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 318

#1,879

His serious university training shields the technician against any idea.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 308

#1,874

To attribute an axial position in history to the West would be extravagant, if the rest of the world copied only its technology, if any form which is invented today, in whatever area, did not always appear to be invented by a Westerner without talent.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 307

#1,822

Among the inventions of human pride, one will finally slip in which will destroy them all.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 299

#1,758

In order to make the technician devote all his attention to his job, industrial society, without disfiguring his skull, compresses his brain.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 291

#1,734

Traditional technology used to educate, because the mastery of it transmitted gestures integrated into a way of life; the teaching of rationalist technology merely instructs, by transmitting gestures alone.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 288

#1,553

The mastery which man has gained over nature only helps him to debase it without fear.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 259

#1,548

Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 258

#1,537

The technification of the world blunts one’s sensibility and does not refine one's senses.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 257

#1,496

Just as dangerous as believing the desirable to be possible is believing the possible to be desirable.
Sentimental utopias and automatisms of technology.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 252

#1,442

Even the enemy of technology denounces its public, but trivial, outrages more than its invisible, but disastrous, destructions.
(As if contemporary man’s feverish migration, for instance, were disturbing because of traffic accidents.)

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 244

#1,331

As a consequence of technological advances, the old prophets of catastrophes are giving way to the witnesses of catastrophes that were already predicted.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 229

#1,328

Modern man treats the universe like a lunatic treats an idiot.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 228

#1,315

God invented tools, the devil machines.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 226

#1,244

Let us not blame technology for the misfortunes caused by our incapacity to invent a technology of technology.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 216

#1,216

Nothing guarantees man that what he invents will not kill him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 212