Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidised commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

Quote by Joseph Wood Krutch

Topics: Engineering Quotes, Funny Quotes

A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other modern means of communication...

A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other modern means of communication...

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no...

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no...

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no...

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no...

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in...

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in...

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a...

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a...

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments,...

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments,...

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in...

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in...

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy...

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy...

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments,...

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments,...

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask...

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask...

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but...

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but...

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the...

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the...

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and...

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and...

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you...

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you...

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most...

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most...

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but...

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but...