Technology Quotes

To speak of television as 'neutral' and therefore subject to change is as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns.

~ Jerry Mander

I consider it extremely doubtful whether the happiness of the human race has been enhanced by the technical and industrial developments that followed in the wake of rapidly progressing natural science.

~ Erwin Schrödinger

We live during a time in which some shoppers shiver all Thanksgiving night only to trample one another to death in a sunrise race through the electronics store to buy gaming consoles that allow them to create avatars of themselves.

~ Joe Dilley

The problem, really, is that while humanity continues to experience huge leaps in technology, we experience no equivalent leaps in our ethical capacity. In the never-ending arms race between technology and ethics, technology always wins. Researchers who tally the results of this immortal race have a name for it: history.

~ David J. Morris

Even a small amount of unplanned downtime can effect a company’s profitability and reputation.

~ Ratmir Timashev

Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.

~ Kim Wright

I pride myself in being a technology innovator, so our specialty at Veeam is our laser-focused commitment to R&D, but you cannot build solid solutions without knowing what the goals are for your customers.

~ Ratmir Timashev

Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

In many homes, technology meant to illuminate the mind ends up only illuminating the living room.

~ Joe Dilley

I have only touched one other computer at my friend Marissa's house, and found the experience disconcerting. There was something sinister about the green letters and numbers that flashed on the screen as the computer booted up, and I hated the way Marissa stopped answering questions or noticing me the second it was turned on.

~ Lena Dunham

Distraction leaches the authenticity out of our communications. When we are not emotionally present, we are gliding over the surface of our interactions and we never tangle in the depths where the nuances of our skills are tested and refined. A medical professor describes the easy familiarity with which her digital-native resident students master medical electronic records—but is troubled by the fact that they enter data with their eyes focused on their digital devices, not on the patient in the room with them. Preoccupation with technology acts as a screen between the student and the patient’s real emotion, real fear, and real concern. It may also prevent these residents from noticing physical symptoms that the patient fails to mention. The easy busyness of medical record entry is a way to sidestep the more challenging dynamics of human connection. But experienced physicians know that interpersonal skills are essential to mastering the art and science of medical diagnosis.

~ Marian Deegan

You just can’t take for granted just how absolutely predatory the technology space is.

~ Sean Silcoff

No wires tender even as nervescan transmit the impact ofour seasons, our catastropheswhile we are closed inside them

~ Margaret Atwood

It [advanced technology] had isolated the people of the old world from nature, shielding them from the consequences of imbalance, and yet they’d believed, right up until the very end, that it would save them. But…advances in technology could never compensate for failures in empathy.

~ Ambelin Kwaymullina

The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element from the consideration of the form.

~ Evelyn Waugh

I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes.

~ Arkady Strugatsky

One of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.

~ Edward Tenner

Anna, like most English speakers, thought GASP was a silly name for the project. But the name got the point across. If there were modern wonders of the world, GASP - and Kali - stood as far above them as the Colossus of Rhodes had stood above man.

~ A. Ashley Straker

There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. That's true of all types of consumer electronics.

~ Trip Hawkins

To live in modernity--an era contemporaneous with the triumph of the news--is to be constantly reminded that, thanks to science and technology, change and improvement are continuous and relentless. This is part of the reason we must keep checking the news in the first place: we might at any moment be informed of some extraordinary development that will fundamentally alter reality. Time is an arrow following a precarious, rapid and yet tantalizingly upward trajectory.

~ Alain De Botton

The business we're in is more sociological than technological, more dependent on workers' abilities to communicate with each other than their abilities to communicate with machines.

~ Tom Demarco

Technology isn’t what makes us “post-human” or “transhuman,” as some writers and scholars have recently suggested. It’s what makes us human. Technology is in our nature. Through our tools we give our dreams form. We bring them into the world. The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.

~ Nicholas Carr

The events of the Titanic disaster can be seen as a symbol of what happens through overconfidence in technology, complacence, and a mindset of profits over people's safety.

~ Deborah Hopkinson

I was aware that I was taking inordinate pleasure in small, technological events and objects, and that this was probably a semiconscious tactic meant to evade confronting certain agonizing life events which were probably not resolvable and were destined to cause unrelenting pain and distress; yet the pleasure was real, and I took it greedily.

~ David Cronenberg

He watched the desert slip under the airship's nose, and the land roughened into highlands over which he had traveled at great cost, in great pain - dreamlike, such speed, looking down on a world where time moved more slowly, where realities were different and immediate and he had learned for a time to live.

~ C.j. Cherryh

...people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

~ Neil Postman

These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

The world is fast changing and until you learn to adapt and adjust to stand out from the masses, you will fade into oblivion

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

. .his cell phone didn't work in Three Pines, and neither did email. He almost expected to see messages fluttering back and forth in the sky above the village, unable to descend.

~ Louise Penny

The tools that would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

~ Plato

Modern invention has been a great leveler. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and wipe out the distinctions of class or finance.

~ Ivor Brown

We were bleeding information from the nose and ears, though dazed and disoriented was not how I experienced it. Most of the time, I felt like I was three years old, high on chocolate cake and social networks, constantly wired, ingesting information and news about information, books and books about books, data and metadata—I was, in other words, overstimulated yet gluttonous for more.

~ Marilyn Johnson

What, exactly, is the Internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a “modem” can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo.

~ Dave Barry

The invention of the mechanical clock was one of a number of major advances that turned Europe from a weak, peripheral, highly vulnerable outpost of Mediterranean civilization into a hegemonic aggressor.

~ David S. Landes

When you agree to help one person, you ultimately have to disappoint someone else; it's like a karmic law.

~ Katie Kacvinsky

Every technology will alienate you from some part of your life. That is its job. Your job is to notice. First notice the difference. And then, every time, choose.

~ Michael Harris

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

~ Dave Barry

the screen and keyboard account for much of computers' weight. The intelligent part of a computer is a thousand times smaller than a Gucci buckle.

~ Ted Sargent

Now, as a non-Amish person in the twentieth century who is not a part of the aging and thus noncoveted seventy-five-plus marketing demographic that views things like cell phones and iPads with that quaint, old-people mixture of astonishment, fascination, confusion, and abject fear, I spend as much time pawing my cell phone as members of the postpubescent marketing demographic spend pawing each other and themselves.

~ Bikesnobnyc

Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job.

~ Michel Faber