Modern Technology Quotes

• Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.

  Gordon Brown

  Communication, Technology, Opportunity

  "Wiring a web for global good". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2009.

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• With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.

  Geddy Lee

  Technology, Order, Keyboards

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  A Thousand and One Epigrams (1911)

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• 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

  Technology, Order, Civilization

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• Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Technology, Masters, Dangerous

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

  Stewart Brand

  Technology, Service Culture, Over You

  The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT ch. 1 (1987)

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• Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

  Max Frisch

  Technology, Men, Way

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  We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

  Carl Sagan

  Motivational, Education, Knowledge

  "Why We Need To Understand Science". The Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 14, Issue 3, www.csicop.org. Spring 1990.

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• The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Nature, Science, Technology

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. III), 1939.

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• I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Home, Technology, Meals

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

  Douglas Adams

  Science, Technology, Want

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.117, Del Rey

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• All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

  Mark Kennedy

  Airplane, Technology, Men

  "Beer, Boxers, Batteries, And Bodily Noises". Book by Stuart Kantor, p. 39, 2004.

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• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Technology, Fiction

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.169, Grove Press

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• But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.

  Tony Visconti

  Artist, Technology, Records

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• We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Technology, Information Society

  "Bringing Science Back to Earth". Interview with Anne Kalosh, Hemispheres (the magazine of United Airlines), October 1994.

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• The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Technology, Space, Achievement

  The Saturday Evening Post, 1968.

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• Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.

  Hugh Hopper

  Technology, Tools, Horror

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• To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Technology, Problem, Modern

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The cyber review team will proceed with the most sensitive systems first, but ultimately all systems will be analyzed and made as secure as modern technology permits. And hopefully, that's gonna be our technology.

  Donald Trump

  Team, Technology, Firsts

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2016.

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• That many if not most people...who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the supermarket after they've been bleached and plastic-bag shipped from California or beyond is not a tribute to modern technology; it's an unprecedented abdication of personal responsibility and a ubiquitous benchmark of abnormality.

  Joel Salatin

  Responsibility, Technology, California

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• During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.

  David Bohm

  Travel, Communication, Past

  David Bohm, Lee Nichol (2004). “On Dialogue”, p.1, Psychology Press

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• If a master, a wise and experienced man, wields a great weapon, that's beautiful. He can serve peace with it. But if someone's emotions are imbalanced, even if he has the best equipment, he will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn't trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.

  Ai Weiwei

  Beautiful, Wise, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think, actually, that it's a really fascinating time in history because the development of modern technology and the photographs the satellites were taking from space were mapping the earth in a new way, making us feel like the globe we inhabit is much smaller than previously conceived of, in the human mind.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Thinking, Technology, Space

  Source: collider.com

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• We need to take responsibility for the effect of our environment on our nervous systems, and particularly the nervous systems of our children. No wonder so many of them are diagnosed with all the stuff they're diagnosed with today. Modern technology is a blessing to be sure, but it's also a curse if we allow it to pull us out of our spiritual center. A 24 hour electronic onslaught comes at the expense of our deep humanity and our deepest relationships.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Children, Responsibility

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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