Technology Quotes
Humberto Contreras
What will we be doing, when everything that can be done, can be done better by robots?
4830Jess C. Scott
V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.
2512 Jess C. Scott
My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.
2982 Jess C. Scott
Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.
4590 Jess C. Scott
I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?
2502 Roman Payne
When I touched her body,
I believed she was God.
In the curves of her form
I found the birth of Man,
the creation of the world,
and the origin of all life.
2557 Roman Payne
Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When I read a novel, I don’t want credit cards; I want cash in ducats and gold doubloons.
1523 Henry Mosquera
Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall.
3158 Colson Whitehead
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.
4727 R. Buckminster Fuller
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
2504 Peter Thiel
No one can predict the future exactly, but we know two things: It’s going to be different, and it must be rooted in today’s world.
1573 Sara Sheridan
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.
1620 Michael Bassey Johnson
The world is changing rapidly, and everyone changes along with the world. Discoveries is now becoming rampant; intellectually, technologically,etc, each having its advantage and disadvantage.
1841 Gary Shteyngart
The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted.... To write a book set in the present, circa 2013, is to write about the distant past.
4384 O.J. Rendchen
Man has created technology. Technology has created man; what we are today. Electricity is our way of life. Without it many would perish.
4286 Alberto Manguel
We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.
4573 Carl Honoré
Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet.
1977 Wendell Berry
My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.
2224 Magdalena Ciocan
Technology is grey. More technology, less colors. We're building a world with colors only in poems.
4335 David Sedaris
At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.
1465 Douglas Adams
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
1741 Harry M. Collins
To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.
2462 Toba Beta
It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress,
but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.
1540 Toba Beta
Analogy of scientist who try to reach the higher speed:
A child ant is tired after the long walk in a body of a jet.
It tries to find a method of traveling faster than walking.
1827 Arthur C. Clarke
Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.
1271 Rasheed Ogunlaru
Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.
2773 Erwin Schrödinger
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.
3487 Steve Wozniak
All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control,’ he said. ‘We can’t turn off our internet; we can’t turn off our smartphones; we can’t turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it’s not God…
4402 Carl Sagan
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.
2829 Toba Beta
Size does matter.
Nano even better.
1000 George Friedman
The computer focuses ruthlessly on things that can be represented in numbers. In so doing, it seduces people into thinking that other aspects of knowledge are either unreal or unimportant. The computer treats reason as an instrument for achieving things, not for contemplating things. It narrows dramatically what we know and intended by reason.
3213 Cindy Ann Peterson
We are more advanced technologically than ever before. However, technology, in many respects, is leading to the decline of conversation.
4311 Auliq Ice
The less you use your brain, the less it will be there for use when you need it.
4611 Bernard Kelvin Clive
In this age, you must be relentlessly remarkable to stay relevant, if not you will be relegated.
2165 John Pfeiffer
Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; computers are fast, accurate, and stupid.
3546 Arthur C. Clarke
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
3782 Douglas Adams
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.
3897 Julie Kagawa
As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we.
2788 Omar Nelson Bradley
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
3257 Julian Barnes
[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together.
4546 J.G. Ballard
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.
4207 Eliezer Yudkowsky
By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.
4893 Toba Beta
Witchcraft had once been widely used before cursed by the society.
I see today the society presumes technology will have a different treatment.
1268 Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and now lurks there at the heart of the mystery, a power unimagined before our time.
4682 Sheldon Rampton
Just as war is too important to leave it to the generals, science and technology are too important to leave in the hands of the experts.
1253 Khalid Masood
Science is measurement. Measurement is not science but technology.
3400 Wayne Chirisa
Technology, is the platform that inspires the dynamics of business culture.
3437 Marc Goodman
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.
3961 Terry Pratchett
Amazin'.' he said again. 'He just looks as though he's thinking, right?'
'Er...yes.'
'But he's not actually thinking?'
'Er...no.'
'So...he just gives the impression of thinking but really it's just a show?'
'Er...yes.'
Just like everyone else, then really,' said Ridcully
3685 Neal Stephenson
Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operations.
2691 Michael Bassey Johnson
A creative thought at first sight seems ridiculous and unimportant, an increase in those who cherish it reassures that hiding your creativity hides you for the rest of your life.
2278 Adrian R. Lewis
War created the conditions for great advances in technology...without war men would not traverse oceans in hours, travel in space, or microwave popcorn.
1974 R.F. Georgy
The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem.
4308 Jez Humble
If it hurts, do it more frequently, and bring the pain forward.
3033 Stefan Molyneux
We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.
3020 Nikola Tesla
You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.
1644 Masaru Ibuka
The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.
1648 Patti Smith
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."
(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)
2206 Lawrence Clark Powell
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
2947 John Green
It doesn’t matter how long we’ve used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, really awesome, whereas ebooks - at least so far - are fairly limited in their awesomeness.
4602 Nichole Chase
I might love my e-reader, but I'd never pass up the chance to browse real books.
1517 Neal Stephenson
Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor... at something doesn't collect what is meaningful to me. I need someone to gather it in with all their senses, mix it round in their head, and make it over into words.
1910 Lynne Truss
...intelligence nowadays is all about application: it is the ability 'to take in a complex system and learn its rules on the fly'. For young people, this ability is second nature. Any fool knows that, if you need a new and unfamiliar VCR programmed in a hurry, you commandeer any small passing child to do it.
1145 Neal Stephenson
We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn't bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It's our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.
2354 Noam Chomsky
Thinking is a human feature. Will AI someday really think? That's like asking if submarines swim. If you call it swimming then robots will think, yes.
2748 John Brunner
It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.
4653 Scott Adams
Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time.
3301 Sherry Turkle
Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.
4973 Michael Bassey Johnson
Anybody that fears and detests witchcraft is not happy with science and technology.
4359 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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.
3662 Alec Ross
If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted.
2230 Red Army Faction
What was achieved under Nazi-fascism through bloody terror against the organized workers’ movement and the people is to be achieved again today in West Europe through the “information society
4312 Robert E. Davis
Considering what is at stake politically, economically and technically for most organizations; usually justifying IT governance deployment based on one viewpoint narrows suitability and expected benefits.
1951 Jay Samit
No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.
2633 Nigel Holloway
Face it, George – unlike cholera, death is the only disease everyone is guaranteed to get.’
Heath nodded slowly. ‘But usually only once, Hamish. Usually only once.
1071 Nigel Holloway
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!
3324 Aberjhani
We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
1080 Max Born
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.
2911 Sarah Jio
What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.
1888 Rodney Stark
That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships-although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies.
2197 Robert A. Heinlein
Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
3347 Ina May Gaskin
Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.
2584 Zhuangzi
I've heard my teacher say, where there are machines, there are bound to be machine worries; where there are machine worries, there are bound to be machine hearts. With a machine heart in your breast, you've spoiled what was pure and simple; and without the pure and simple, the life of the spirit knows no rest.
3737 Ambelin Kwaymullina
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.
4259 Katie Kacvinsky
What a forced lifestyle our technology, our inventions imposed on our lives when we tried to live synonymously with computers; when we stepped inside their world, we left the natural one behind.
4715 Toba Beta
Nature is relic of pre-human civilizations.
4774 John Cage
Only chance to make the world a success for humanity lies in technology, grand possibility technology provides to do more with less, and indiscriminately for everyone. Return to nature as nature pre-technologically was, attractive and possible as it still in some places is, can only work for some of us.
3372 Bryant McGill
Nature is the ultimate technology; a technology we are still too immature, arrogant, possessive and careless to care for responsibly.
1929 Toba Beta
The ultimate form of our technological achievement will be identical to the beginning state of this nature.
3303 Jess C. Scott
That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. “Real love, real friends, real body parts…
1951 José Saramago
No olvides que lo que llamamos hoy realidad fue imaginación.
1318 William Gibson
That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.
1294 Amit Kalantri
Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created.
3863 Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono
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.
3346 Marty Rubin
The role of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine.
1916 Marty Rubin
The task of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine.
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