Technology Quotes - Page 3

• Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Men, Presidential

  1963 Speech, 21 May.

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• I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Funny, Death

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

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• Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Learning, Computer Literacy, Classroom

  Nicholas Negroponte (2015). “Being Digital”, p.6, Vintage

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• We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

  Scott D. Cook

  Internet Revolution, Firsts, Minutes

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

  Cory Doctorow

  Giving, Privacy, Used

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.88, Macmillan

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• Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

  Alvin Toffler

  1970 Future Shock.

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• 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.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Learning, Perception, Needs

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

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• Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.

  William Moore Kelly

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover.

  Bill Gates

  Trying, Friendly, Computer

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• If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Car, Driving

  Bill Gates, Janet Lowe (1998). “Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur”, p.173, John Wiley & Sons

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• Technology is important because it creates the future. We're able to be a part of the "next" and create things that don't exist.

  MC Hammer

  Important, Able, Next

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

  Alvin Toffler

  Progress, Hazards, Sides

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

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• However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

  Lewis Mumford

  Positive, Science, Impossible Things

  "Technics and Civilization". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter 8, section 13, 1934.

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• The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Dog, Business, Future

  "At Lunch, Donald Trump Gives Critics Hope" by Thomas L. Friedman, www.nytimes.com. November 22, 2016.

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• As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong by history, culture, deeds, association, and affection.

  Wendell Berry

  People, Political, Culture

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.58, Counterpoint Press

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• There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Jobs, Years, Progress

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• Now familiar with my own particular voice and accent, my Dragon app prints out exactly what I speak into my iPad. Twenty years ago this miracle would be unthinkable.

  Robert Genn

  Voice, Ipads, Dragons

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• The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Marketing, Automation

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.

  Octavio Paz

  Lying, Power, Reality

  1967 Alternating Current.

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• Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

  Dan Brown

  Lonely, Loneliness, People

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing power to make great decisions for good or evil. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Humanity, Powder

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• Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

  Andy Rooney

  America, Firefighter, Giving

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• We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.

  David Warlick

  Education, Teacher, Digital Revolution

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Mean, Progress, Technological Advancement

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.9, Transaction Publishers

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

  Max Frisch

  Wisdom, Science, World

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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