Quotation Explorer - 'Technology'

I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children. - Colson Whitehead
A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. - Frank W. Abagnale
When you talk to a sympathetic mind about technology, gender, age, and experience disappear completely, and soon you’re one-on-one with the topic at hand. - Carmelo S. "Nino" Amarena
Advanced civilization: one without advanced technology. - Marty Rubin
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. - Max Frisch
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. - Jacques Ellul
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. - Richard Feynman
I may be just an empty flesh terminal reliant on technology for all my ideas, memories and relationships, but I am confident that all of that everything that makes me a unique human being is still out there somewhere, safe in a theoretical storage space owned by giant, multinational corporations. - Stephen Colbert
Science and technology are the engines of prosperity. Of course, one is free to ignore science and technology, but only at your peril. The world does not stand still because you are reading a religious text. If you do not master the latest in science and technology, then your competitors will. - Michio Kaku
Technology fuels economy, unfortunately in today’s world it’s the fuel that drags economy - Yatin Patel
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. - Putt's Law
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. - Kurt Vonnegut
Technology is not the problem, nor is religion the problem. We are the problem. - Marty Rubin
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand. - Archibald Putt
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.
The very fact that we now design and manufacture robot companions for the elderly marks a turning point. We ask technology to perform what used to be "love's labor": taking care of each other. - Alone Together Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
I watch worry and anxiety being pandered to through technology which is neutral. - Brian Richardson
Technology is your friend... When it works. - Jack Wynn
We -humans - are wizard who turn miracles into technology. - Stefan Emunds
While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but also the creators of technology. - Newton Lee
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. - Barry Gehm
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
Advancements in technology have provided us the wonderful freedom to procrastinate faster than ever before.
Much has been made about the death of the novel and the end of literature as it’s seen to be assailed by technology, by the web, by the many and varied new forms of entertainment and culture. I don’t share that pessimism because I think it is one of the great inventions of the human spirit. - Richard Flanagan
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots. - Albert Einstein
I can be tolerant of traffic jams and disorganization, faulty technology, miserable weather, and bland foods. People, however, require more than the cold, grudging favor of being tolerated. They require love. - Richelle E. Goodrich
...don’t discount intuition. It holds more wisdom than technology can ever afford - Jack C. Monroe
Technology is anything invented after you were born. - Alan Kay
The new world with more technology, more connectivity, more innovation, and more advantages is less forgiving than the one we left behind - Lillian Gregory
Freedom without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel delusion. And the strength to defend freedom can itself only come from widespread industrialisation and the infusion of modern science and technology into the country's economic life. - Jamsetji Tata
Ah, you big Nancy, there’s nothing to be afraid of. Seen it many times before. They come and go, boy, never change. It’s the same type from the very beginning. Nothing’s changed except the clothes and technology. - William Elias
At a time India was known as golden bird because of its huge amount of gold assets. Let's make India once again the same golden bird full of innovation and technology. - Prakhar Srivastav
You just can’t take for granted just how absolutely predatory the technology space is. - Sean Silcoff
But aside from a few migraines, you can't possibly imagine any OBEY drawbacks that CEASE REPRODUCTION could come with SUBMIT merging CONSUME your thoughts with EMBRACE YOUR CULLING experimental technology CONFORM TO SOCIAL ORDER from an STAY ASLEEP extremely powerful DIE corporation, wait what? - Andrew Hussie
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. - J.G. Ballard
These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber? - Rebecca McNutt
Mobile technology has made each of us "pausable. - Alone Together Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book. - Patti Smith
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology. - Robert Kahn
If utilizing technology is not a crime then why there is prohibition on use of calculators in exams? - Srinivas Shenoy
Technology is a queer thing; it brings you great gifts with one hand and it stabs you in the back with the other. - Charles Percy Snow
We continuously enhance our knowledge base be it latest in technology, market scenario or customer requirements. - UAE Exchange
Well, they've come a long way. To think that he now could access a secret document held in the Vatican archives, via electronic technology. - Peter J Tanous
The technology of the future is made possible by the science of today. - Kambiz Mostofizadeh
When all the people in the world become technology and technology becomes the people, we shall see a new world! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories. - Laurie Anderson
Anybody that fears and detests witchcraft is not happy with science and technology. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Sex × Technology = the Future. - J.G. Ballard
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, CEO Veeam
Technology offers great communication tools. Social media helps make connections. And, heart to heart conversations take place face to face and not over email, Whatsup, Facebook or Twitter. Don't be deceived. - Ana Ortega
I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly. - Criss Jami
Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the options and opportunities presented by technology that drives change. - Morgan Housel
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device. - David Langford
Our technology forces us to live mythically - Marshall McLuhan
I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s. - Peter D. Schiff
The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others. - Masaru Ibuka
Human cultures construct an enormous variety of environments through language, technology, and institutions. We are born in and die in these systems of symbols and imagination. - William E. Paden
The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use. - Robert M. Pirsig
We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill. - Marc Goodman
Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today."(Interview, Sierra Magazine, May/June 2005) - Jared Diamond
I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged, but if we made an example of one or two, it might give the others incentive to try harder. - Chuck Lorre
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. - Clive James
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. - Omar Bradley
If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior.
Creating back doors to hack in to secure devices will not only undermine consumer confidence in technology but most importantly empower cyber criminals and totalitarian regimes. - Arzak Khan
...there's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge don't fail us. - Ally Condie
We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. - Roy Amara
By shaping the menus we pick from, technology hijacks the way we perceive our choices and replaces them with new ones. But the closer we pay attention to the options we’re given, the more we’ll notice when they don’t actually align with our true needs. - Tristan Harris
Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost... It is what you live in. - James Glieck
Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
History, Geology, Psychology, Philosophy, Chemistry, Physics, Theology, Mathematics, Technology, Sociology, Biology, and the list goes on and on. If all this body of knowledge exist for human consumption, why would I specialize in only one field? - Allan Amanyire
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second-rate technology, who led them into it in the first place. - Douglas Adams
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. - Carl Sagan
Technology is everything that doesn’t work yet. - W. Daniel Hillis
Science fiction is the arena of the not-yet, and every science fiction story has this element of not-yet-ness — usually a bit of technology or a scientific discovery that we don't know about in the real world of the present but that might be a possibility in the future. - Welch Everman
It’s not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it’s that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is. - Nick Harkaway
Better world's when we change by simulating the technology NOT the Homo sapiens - binarybijay
Death - Is only when the spirit evolves to a higher state that the body becomes old technology. - Linda Deir
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
Technology is grey. More technology, less colors. We're building a world with colors only in poems. - Magdalena Ciocan
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. - Bill Gates
If you want innovation, growth, and culture, invest in people, not technology. Technology can't lead, love, or connect. - Farshad Asl
Technology - with all its promise and potential - has gotten so far beyond human control that its threatening the future of humankind. - Kim J. Vicente
Without risks my friends there is no progress, no advancement either in science or technology. - Sunday Adelaja
Not a day goes by, without thinking, that books are our future, not technology. - Arianna Ruby
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. - Alice Kahn
Technology is not the problem. We are the problem. - Marty Rubin
It's not technology that limits us. We're the limitation. Our technology is an expression of our intelligence and creativity, so the limitations of our technology are a reflection of our own limitations. We can't fundamentally advance technology until we fundamentally advance ourselves. - Christian Cantrell
People usually feel funny, smile and laugh when I tell them about my strong belief in the very existence of prehistoric advanced technology and great civilizations of wilier races. I just can't wait to see their faces at time the truth is revealed. - Toba Beta
No matter how fast weapons and technology evolve in the 21st century, one thing remains constant is that war is a human endeavor, a grueling contest between two learning and adaptive forces. Victory, therefore rests on how smart, how tough, and how dedicated our boots on the ground. - Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono
Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people. - Steven M. Greer
How ironic that wild nature should humanize us while technology dehumanizes us! - Marty Rubin
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. - R. Buckminster Fuller
Technology has given the dumb a tongue - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Technology and Science is what you make it. - Techno Geek Zone
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
In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it's part of our world and we can simply assume that knowledge if we write about it. - Sara Sheridan
There’s no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural. - John Michael Greer
Though often scoffed at by serious writers, science fiction worms its way into our cultural psyche in interesting ways, and not just as predictors of technology. Many of these writers translate the –isms of our times into imagined futures populated with characters coping with the consequences. - Frank Daniels III
Why are futuristic movies so primitive, violent and ugly despite having sophisticated technology? Humanity could have an incredible future if we manage the enormous challenges we face. - Jonathan R Banks
So, your kids must love the iPad? I asked Mr. [Steve] Jobs, trying to change the subject. The company’s first tablet was just hitting the shelves. They haven’t used it, he told me. We limit how much technology our kids use at home. (Nytimes article, Sept. 10, 2014) - Nick Bilton
Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out! - Bob Dylan
... it is because we have acquired technical knowledge without understanding the total process of life that technology has become a means of destroying ourselves - Krishnamurti
The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people. - Jaron Lanier
As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive. - Don DeLillo
All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
Now they're bouncing messages off the stars. Bet the messages aren't worth the technology. Think of "See you Friday, Ethel", chattering round the eternal spheres.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good. - Robert Pirsig
Technology may be bane , but not to the sane people for they know how to use it for promoting the humanity. - Anuj Somany
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. - OMAR N. BRADLEY
The human spirit must prevail over technology. - Albert Einstein
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to a man. - Maya Angelou
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. - Max Born
All that we have achieved in life is creating a virtual reality for ourselves, while burying the actual reality! Our preference of technology over nature proves that Man is experiencing everything through the HEAD. What a pity! - Ramana Pemmaraju
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.""Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. - Arthur C. Clarke
Humans are capable of any thing. Just look how most technology you use today and see its origin and you will see over time we can improve in different ways. - Lee Sonogan
Like never before the trajectories of wealth, business, and poverty can be altered in unexpected ways by women. The field of dreams is being reconstructed by technology and the knowledge economy so that the gates, ceilings, doors, and portals are wide open for all who want to play. - Lillian Gregory
Technology & Science is what you make it!!! - TechnoGeekZone
Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet. - Carl Honoré
The ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to our wishes a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self. - Jonathan Franzen
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. - Max Frisch
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it. - Max Frisch
I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do. - Steve Jobs
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan
Technology has bridged the gap of distant communication,bringing friends and family closely together but no matter the number of ‘likes’, tweets, chats, comments, posts and shares, none can compare to a sincere smile, a kind kiss and a warm hug - Bernard Kelvin Clive
For a long time, it was one of these things where—I was really much younger than now—my whole "brand" both to the investors and to our board members was this crazy Russian boy-genius who comes out and sprinkles magic dust on technology and things just work. - Max Levchin
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. - Alan W. Watts
With the current technology, I now agree with non-believers. We should no longer say the Bible is life's road-map, the Bible is life's GPS! - Ibrahim Emile
Loneliness is the worst pain that human can go through specially the period time when technology that is design to keep people away from each other and that period is now (21-Century). - Nadair Desmar
Being sceptical about technology is like deciding whether or not you should breath. - pfano percy rathogwa
My most educated analysis, with all means of science and technology in mind, is that it’s magic, Alex said. There’s no other possible explanation! -Alex Bailey, The Land of Stories; The Wishing Spell - Chris Colfer The Land of Stories
Technology is great...when it works. - Bobby Darnell
Computers are heaven-sent when they work and hell-spawn when they don't.There's just not much middle ground when it comes to technology. - Dani Harper
It bears emphasizing: our traditional ways of thinking have ignored - and virtually made invisible - the relationship between people and technology. - Kim J. Vicente
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
People, there's no such thing as, THE BEST CAMERA BRAND, but yes there will always be THE BEST CAMERA AT ANY GIVEN TIME. Technology will change, but not art. - Ashraf Saharudin
Smart Technology is making us stupid. - Danny Mekić
Slaves of religion or slaves of technology, what difference does it make? - Marty Rubin
Human kind is already perfect, Technology is getting stronger but we are getting weaker - Pak Ho
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