Technology quotes
50 quotes. Authors include Alan Watts, Albert Einstein, Aldous Huxley, Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., B. F. Skinner, Bill Watterson, Buckminster Fuller, Carrie Snow, Clay Shirky, Cory Doctorow, Don DeLillo, Douglas Adams, Douglas Coupland, Eckhart Tolle, Elbert Hubbard, Hal Abelson, Henri Poincaré, James Gleick, Jared Diamond, John Brunner, John Cleese, John Lasseter, Joseph Wood Krutch, Kurt Vonnegut, Larry Niven, Laurie Anderson, Libby Larsen, Man Ray, Max Frisch.
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“Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.”
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“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
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“All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.”
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“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”
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“Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.”
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“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”
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“This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature.”
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“Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.”
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“Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.”
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“The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.”
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“All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.”
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“The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.”
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“Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.”
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“Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.”
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“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
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“The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom.”
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“Ethics change with technology.”
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“So much technology, so little talent.”
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“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”
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“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.”
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“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
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“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
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“It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.”
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“It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.”
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“Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.”
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“The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.”
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“Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.”
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“Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.”
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“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”
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“Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
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“Technology has to be invented or adopted.”
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“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.”
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“The human spirit must prevail over technology.”
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“The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.”
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“As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.”
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“First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.”
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“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
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“The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.”
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“Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.”
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“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
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“TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.”
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“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
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“Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.”
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“Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.”
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“This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.”
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“Technology is teaching us to be human again.”
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“Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.”
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“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.”
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“Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.”