Technology Quotes

• We're changing the world with technology.

  Bill Gates

  World, Changing The World

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• The old rules may say we can’t protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we’ve always used new technologies - we’ve used science; we’ve used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete.

  Barack Obama

  Discovery, Research And Development, America

  Barack Obama's speech on Climate Change at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• If today's arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies an instinctive repudiation of chaos and a longing to find the form appropriate to our times.

  Oskar Schlemmer

  Art, Organization, Machines

  Oskar Schlemmer, Tut Schlemmer (1990). “The Letters and Diaries of Oskar Schlemmer”

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• People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.

  Paul Hawken

  People, Age, Information

  "The Next Reformation". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.context.org. 1995.

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• For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

  Alice Kahn

  Life, Women, Failure

  "The Brain is Wider Than the Sky by Bryan Appleyard - review" by Simon Ings, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2011.

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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

  Service Culture, Over You, Getting Over You

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

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• The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

  Bill Gates

  Everyday, Fit, Computing

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• I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspiring, Fear, Humorous

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Questions". Book edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281, 1988.

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• We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

  Bill Gates

  Dream, Finishing, Computer

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• So much technology, so little talent.

  Vernor Vinge

  Littles, Talent

  Vernor Vinge (2011). “Rainbow's End”, p.52, Pan Macmillan

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• We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

  Grace Hopper

  Computer, Forget, Asks

  Quoted in the OCLC Newsletter, no.167, Mar/ Apr 1987.

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• To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

  Robert Orben

  Work, Geek, Blame

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• I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Together, Pieces

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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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• What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Jobs, Opportunity, Doe

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• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Possible And Impossible, Awe And Wonder

  Letter to the editor, Science, 19 Jan. 1968.

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• The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

  Steve Ballmer

  Learning, Creativity, Thinking

  "The Astounding Impact of Innovative Technology in the Developing World" by Rev. Larry Hollon, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2013.

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• Men have become the tools of their tools.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Witty, Work, Humorous

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

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• Untethered technology gives us the freedom to do nearly anything, anytime, anywhere. It can also enslave us - we feel compelled to use it where ever it is. Technology is neutral. How, when and where we use it is up to us.

  Linda Stone

  Giving, Use, Feels

  "Is it Time to Retire the Never-Ending List?" by Linda Stone, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2008.

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• It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.

  John Brunner

  Zanzibar, Buttons, Supposed To Be

  "Stand on Zanzibar". Book by John Brunner, 1968.

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• The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

  Karl Marx

  Work, Philosophical, Useless Things

  Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.122, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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, Information Society, Science Physics

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

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• All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent

  David R. Brower

  Guilty, Innocent, Should

  "The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century". Book by Ronald Bailey, reason.com. July 21, 2015.

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  Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

  Louis Pasteur

  Country, Science, Humanity

  1876 Toast at the banquet of the International Congress of Sericulture (translated by Rene Dubois).

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