50 most popular technology quotes
These technology quotes very well define our polarized attitudes: we either love or hate technology.
Technology has two faces. We all feel it, but sometimes can’t find words to describe it. Ebooks are the best example to show the 0-1 nature of emotions the technology evokes.
On one side, there is a beautiful, calming world of printed books and reading. Free from electronic-based impatience, distractions, and failures.
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Keeping calm and quiet is not necessarily pushing the world forward. And here comes the opposite attitude. Technology brings the excitement, helps look into the future, and make us brave enough to try to shape it.
Cory Doctorow said once “This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.”
The whole idea is not about the choice between using or not using technology. The challenge is to use it right.
Some of the quotes are visualized to let you easier share them in social networks. A bit of reflection on how deeply we depend on technology is good for anyone, especially the one who spends too much time in social media networks.
Please suggest the technology quotes that are missing here, as well as which ones you’d like to see as images.
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50 best technology quotes
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
–Northrop Frye
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
–Thomas Edison
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
–Albert Einstein
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
–Elbert Hubbard
Technology is a word that describes something that doesn’t work yet.
–Douglas Adams
All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.
–Bill Watterson
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
–Douglas Adams
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
–R. Buckminster Fuller
It’s supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.
–John Brunner
Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.
–Jasper Fforde
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
–Kurt Vonnegut
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
–Aldous Huxley
The human spirit must prevail over technology.
–Albert Einstein
Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.
–Max Frisch
Technology frightens me to death. It’s designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.
–John Cleese
The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.
–Libby Larsen
Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
–Joseph Wood Krutch
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
–Pablo Picasso
TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.
–Douglas Coupland
This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature.
–Don DeLillo
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.
–Eckhart Tolle
First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we’ve realized it’s a brochure.
–Douglas Adams
Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.
–Clay Shirky
Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.
–Sir Arthur C. Clarke
Ethics change with technology.
–Larry Niven
So much technology, so little talent.
–Vernor Vinge
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
–Harold Abelson
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
–Alice Kahn
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.
–James Gleick
The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.
–Volker Grassmuck
Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
–Laurie Anderson
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
–Sydney J. Harris
Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.
–Stewart Brand
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
–Jeff Pesis
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
–B.F. Skinner
Technology presumes there’s just one right way to do things and there never is.
–Robert M. Pirsig
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
–Mitchell Kapor
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
–Omar N. Bradley
Technology has to be invented or adopted.
–Jared Diamond
Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
–Carrie Snow
Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.
–Sam Ewing
The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
–John Lasseter
All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.
–Tom Hodgkinson
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.
–Christian Lous Lange
Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
–Alan Kay
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
–Arthur M. Schlesinger
Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.
–Steve Jobs
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
–Cory Doctorow
Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don’t abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.
–Patti Smith
50 most popular technology quotes
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