technology
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘technology’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“The humanists’ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.” -David Bowie
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“Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It’s just always all in the way you use it. So there’s no – you can’t really blame anything on the technology. It’s just the way people use it, and it always has been.” -Steve Martin
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“Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.” -Karl Popper
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“I’ve always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.” -Deepak Chopra
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“To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.” -Keith Richards
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“Technology favors horrible people.” -Doug Coupland
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“Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.” -Stephen Covey
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“The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.” -John Lasseter
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“Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.” -Arthur M. Schlesinger
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“There’s nothing wrong with technology. It’s when technology is the story and not the artist, that’s the problem.” -Billy Corgan
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“The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.” -Bill Gates
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“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” -Carl Sagan
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“The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.” -Thomas Sowell
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“With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if…
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“Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?” -Abdul Kalam
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“Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth – the soil and the labourer.” -Karl Marx
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“If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us – through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology – that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.” -Richard Dawkins
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“The new information technology… Internet and e-mail… have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.” -Peter Drucker
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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.” -Alan Watts
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“Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.” -Niels Bohr
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“The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about it.” -William Gibson
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“Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.” -Andy Grove
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“Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.” -Orrin Hatch
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“The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.” -E. F. Schumacher
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“Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.” -Stewart Alsop
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“I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away… it was already here. I just wasn’t aware of it yet.” -Bruce Sterling
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“We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.” -Reed Hundt
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“The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.” -Andrew Brown
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“The only thing that I’d rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.” -Scott McNealy
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“The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.” -Dennis Gabor
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“The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.” -John Spencer
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“While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.” -Maya Angelou
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“The Linux philosophy is ‘Laugh in the face of danger’. Oops. Wrong One. ‘Do it yourself’. Yes, that’s it.” -Linus Torvalds
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“I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that’s great.” -Larry Wall
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“I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.” -Alan Perlis
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“The Internet is a telephone system that’s gotten uppity.” -Clifford Stoll
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“Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.” -Larry Niven
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“What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.” -Tim O’Reilly
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“We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.” -Lawrence Clark Powell
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“I have an almost religious zeal… not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.” -Dan Millman
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“The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It’s time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.” -Niklas Zennstrom
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“I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
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“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.” -B. F. Skinner
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“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.” -Graham Greene
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“Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.” -Theodor Adorno
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“It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.” -John Stuart Mill
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“Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.” -Daniel J. Boorstin
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“The internet is a great way to get on the net.” -Bob Dole
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“For my confirmation, I didn’t get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.” -Wernher von Braun
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“If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.” -Omar N. Bradley
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“There are three roads to ruin women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.” -Georges Pompidou
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“People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.” -Ralph Nader
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“Defect-free software does not exist.” -Wietse Venema
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“Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.” -Jean Arp
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“Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.” -Andy Rooney
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“Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing… you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn’t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.” -Jimmy Carter
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“Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?” -Al Boliska
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“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.” -Alfred North Whitehead
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“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.” -Richard P. Feynman
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“What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.” -Arnold H. Glasow
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“The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.” -Edward R. Murrow
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“Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.” -Fred Allen
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“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” -Albert Einstein
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“The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” -Arthur C. Clarke
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“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.” -John F. Kennedy
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“Men have become the tools of their tools.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” -Gertrude Stein
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“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” -Aldous Huxley
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