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

technology

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

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. 105 other wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. 13 quotes from Fred Allen

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. 7 more 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

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

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. 26 other 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 views from Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

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 quotes from Marshall McLuhan

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

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

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

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

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 sayings from Marshall McLuhan

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

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

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

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

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices. 3 thoughts 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 views from Oscar Wilde

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

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 quotes from Carl Sagan

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

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide. 5 other 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 views 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 quotes from An Wang

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

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

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