This document presents a series of quotes from 1703 to 1985 that criticize students' dependence on new technologies for writing and calculating. Each quote laments that students rely too heavily on the latest devices (slates, paper, pens, ink, fountain pens, ballpoint pens, calculators) and lack the skills to write or calculate without them. The concluding paragraph notes that while pens, pencils and calculators are still used, computers now further facilitate our lives, and there will always be critics of new technologies.