The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.

It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.

We don't have a revolution, and we don't have the time for evolution, where does it come from? It must come from some kind of shared experience that everybody agrees with.

I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.

We've got a planet in which we don't want to have everybody having sex, and most people are lonely anyway.

Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.

There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.