Technology Quotes

McAllister looked up into her face, his eyes blazing with anger. At last, his composure cracked.‘That’s right,’ he shouted back. ‘My word against – whose? Yours? You were dead, remember? No, of course you don’t remember. You were dead!

~ Nigel Holloway

Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.

~ David Cronenberg

Technology does make possible advance toward shalom; progress in mastery of the world can bring shalom nearer. But the limits of technology must also be acknowledged; technology is entirely incapable of bringing about shalom between ourselves and God, and it is only scarcely capable of bringing about the love of self and neighbour.

~ Nicholas Wolterstorff

For when man is faced with a curse he answers, I'll take care of my problems. And he puts everything to work to become powerful, to keep the curse from having its effects. He creates the arts and the sciences, he raises an army, he constructs chariots, he builds cities. The spirit of might is a response to the divine curse.

~ Jacques Ellul

I told [John Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted 'Mary had a little lamb', etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly.[On first words spoken on a phonograph.]

~ Thomas A. Edison

Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn vehicle, and being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than a witch.

~ J.b.s. Haldane

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions

~ Neil Postman

The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.

~ Leslie White

Technology makes people equal, it gives them a fair advantage.

~ Samer Chidiac

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

~ George Stephenson

When multi-national corporations are given the same powers as feudal states or nations: expect wars.

~ Norman Hartley

What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies

~ Neil Postman

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.

~ Robert Kahn

Technology is your friend... When it works.

~ Jack Wynn

Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so) was speech - and both are still dangerous to this day - but human beings would not be human without them.

~ Isaac Asimov

The opposite of manliness isn’t cowardice, it’s technology.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Being forever available to the rest of the world is overrated. I mean, what are 'missed calls' invented for?

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Memory has always been social. Now we’re using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

~ Clive Thompson

The longer a person's twitter @username is, the harder it is to argue with them … on twitter.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

That one American farmer can now feed himself and fifty-six other people may be, within the narrow view of the specialist, a triumph of technology; by no stretch of reason can it be considered a triumph of agriculture or of culture. It has been made possible by the substitution of energy for knowledge, of methodology for care, of technology for morality.

~ Wendell Berry

New Rule: Stop putting psychedelic screensavers on computers. I sit down to check my e-mail, and the next thing I know it's three days later, I'm in the desert, I'm banging on a drum, I'm naked, and somebody's pierced my dick.

~ Bill Maher

Technology is the idol of our age. The Bible describes the evils of worshipping things built by the hand of man. Back then, it was a simple statue, today it is far more insidious. And for every problem technology creates, we look to technology for solutions.

~ James Rozoff

You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts.

~ Steven Levy

Kinko's is the soup kitchen for the technologically disadvantaged.

~ Paul Orfalea

A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they're regular PCs and so they're not always the most reliable.

~ Jessica Livingston

Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging—to take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it.

~ Jessica Livingston

It may well be that what we have hithertounderstood as architecture, and what we arebeginning to understand of technology, areincompatible disciplines. The architect whoproposes to run with technology knows nowthat he will be in fast company, and that inorder to keep up he may have to discard hiswhole cultural load, including the professionalgarments by which he is recognized as anarchitect. If, on the other hand, he decides notto do this, he may find that a technologicalculture has decided to go on without him.

~ Rener Banham

On its first over was the famous picture of Earth taken from space; its subtitle was Access to Tools. The underlying philosophy was that technology could be our friend. Brand wrote on the first page of the first edition, A realm of intimate, personal power is developing- power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested. Tools that aid this process are sought and promoted by the Whole Earth Catalog.

~ Walter Isaacson

[Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.

~ Steven Levy

Technology innovation for the sake of innovation is an empty shell if we focus on what people don't need but would buy anyways.

~ Iveta Cherneva

The extraordinary triumph of the cellphone among India’s poor stemmed from its ability to enable a most mundane human need, which is to chat with other people. And when the poor chat, it is not always about curing a child of diarrhea.

~ Manu Joseph

As we watch, in fascination, the arresting replicas of reality on our television screen, there may sit, in the same room, a telephone and a phonograph. On our bedside table stands a radio; another accompanies us in our car. These strange machines never move unless we move them; they come alive only at our touch. But give them their due: they serve us well. They provide the far-flung, trillion-nerved ganglia of commerce, of news, of our mighty military forces. And down through the days and nights of our lives, they ward off our loneliness and bring us nearer together. Perhaps someday they will make us brothers.

~ Robert O'brien

technology leads to lower costs when it replaces workers' salaries. It does the opposite when it requires more highly-trained workers to utilize that technology. Higher education, medicine, dentistry and the legal profession all provide examples.

~ Robert B. Archibald

There is a world out there, so new, so random and disassociated that it puts us all in danger. We talk online, we ‘friend’ each other when we don’t know who we are really talking to – we fuck strangers. We mistake almost anything for a relationship, a community of sorts, and yet, when we are with our families, in our communities, we are clueless, we short-circuit and immediately dive back into the digitized version – it is easier, because we can be both our truer selves and our fantasy selves all at once, with each carrying equal weight.

~ A.m. Homes

Nature is cheaper than therapy.

~ M.p. Zarrella

Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don’t have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The one plentiful herds of magazine writers would continue to be culled - by the Internet, by the recession, by the American public, who would rather watch TV or play video games or electronically inform friends that, like, 'rain sucks!' But there's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.

~ Gillian Flynn

To grant the power of a weapon master to anyone at all, without effort, without training and proof that the lessons have taken hold, is to deny the responsibility that comes with such power.

~ R.a. Salvatore

Only idiots get bored when we've all got handheld devices containing infinite knowledge at our fingertips.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour