This document presents a series of quotes from 1703 to 1985 that show how educators have consistently complained about students' dependence on new technologies for writing and calculating. Each new technology that emerged, from slates to paper to pens to calculators, was criticized for making students less self-sufficient and capable with prior methods. While technologies changed what students depended on, the overall message is that each new technology was lamented for replacing previous methods of writing and arithmetic.