Technology Quotes

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E. F. Schumacher

Clifford D. Simak

Richard Feynman

Thomas Sowell

David Crystal

Gordon Moore

Alan Kay

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

E. F. Schumacher

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. (All that technology may say about ends is whether or not they are compatible with each other or realizable.)

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind — mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

Clifford D. Simak

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

Look, this is simple. The good old days are now. OK? The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Richard Feynman

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

Clarke's Third Law:

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.

You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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

Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

Emily Greene Balch

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

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use these languages, or we remain mute.

Look, technology is another word for tool. There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. We got past that. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

We have men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. 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. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. That's technology. TV is like any other kind of tool. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad? Computers are going to be even bigger. TVs are one-way. You sit there and you watch it. Computers, you interact with.

The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of technology in need of an appropriate roadway. Rather, the car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different points.

At the time of GPT-3, people were like "this is amazing, this is [a] marvel of technology," [...] and it was. But now we have GPT-4, and you look at GPT-3 and you're like "that's unimaginably horrible."