Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

technology

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

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

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

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

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

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 thoughts from Alan Watts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. 7 other wisdom & wit from B. F. Skinner

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

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. 7 more wisdom & wit from Max Frisch

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

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

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

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

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. 7 other wisdom & wit 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 more 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 quotes from John Stuart Mill

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

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. 26 sayings 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

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

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

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

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

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 other thoughts from Marshall McLuhan

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

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

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

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 wisdom & wit from E. F. Schumacher

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

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. 26 more 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 quotes from Arthur Holly Compton

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices. 3 other wisdom & wit from Samuel Wilson

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

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