Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

technology

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it. 7 other thoughts from Alan Perlis

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. 7 quotes from Alan Perlis

The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is. 22 thoughts from James Dyson

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want. 22 other sayings from James Dyson

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. 13 wisdom & wit from Fred Allen

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products. 22 wisdom & wit from James Dyson

Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally. 2 other wisdom & wit from John McKinley

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. 3 other quotes from Richard P. Feynman

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. 11 wisdom & wit from John Stuart Mill

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. 7 other views from Max Frisch

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. 7 quotes from Max Frisch

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. 59 more views from Elbert Hubbard

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. 26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. 17 quotes from Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. 45 more quotes from Aldous Huxley

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. 27 more thoughts from Dave Barry

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. 6 quotes from Karl Popper

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way. 19 sayings from Marshall McLuhan

Men have become the tools of their tools. 117 other quotes from Henry David Thoreau

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame. 19 more wisdom & wit from Marshall McLuhan

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions. 27 more quotes from Dave Barry

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change. 2 wisdom & wit from Pierre Schaeffer

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. 2 more quotes from E. F. Schumacher

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. 26 quotes from Theodor Adorno

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole. 2 views from Arthur Holly Compton

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices. 3 more quotes from Samuel Wilson

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship. 3 quotes from Henry A. Wallace

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. 100 more quotes from Oscar Wilde

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff. 2 more quotes from Monica Edwards

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. 9 other quotes from Carl Sagan

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. 9 more views from Carl Sagan

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked. 2 quotes from Bob Barr

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide. 5 quotes from Max Lerner

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government. 2 quotes from Timothy Murphy

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. 16 more quotes from Alan Watts

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it. 3 sayings from An Wang

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. 5 more thoughts from Omar N. Bradley

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. 31 other quotes from Gertrude Stein

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. 19 quotes from Alfred North Whitehead

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. 7 quotes from B. F. Skinner

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living. 2 sayings from Toni Cade Bambara