Technology Quotes

"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."

"Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork."

"Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork."

"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."

"The great myth of our times is that technology is communication."

"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."

"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."

"TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public."

"This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy."

"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."

"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art."

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."

"All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life."

"Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other."

"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."

"Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is."

"I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex."

"All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once."

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

"The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button."

"Technology is teaching us to be human again."

"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic."

"Ethics change with technology."

"Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring."

"Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born."

"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."

"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."

"It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button."

"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

"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."

"Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable."

"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

"Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."

"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."

"So much technology, so little talent."