“If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.”
Lyndon B. Johnson
PinOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. – Elbert HubbardPinThe 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
“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
PinTechnology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. – Christian Lous LangePinAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke
“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.”
PinDesign is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. – Steve JobsPinLet’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday. – Steve Jobs
“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.”
PinTechnology like art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. – Daniel BellPinThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. – Isaac AsimovPinI do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. – Isaac AsimovPinTechnology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born. – Alan KayPinOur technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. – Alvin Toffler
9 Inspirational Quotes About Technology
PinMan is still the most extraordinary computer of all. – John F. KennedyPinTechnology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is themotherof civilizations, of arts and of sciences. – Freeman DysonPinThe technology you use impresses no one. The experience you create with it is everything. – Sean GeretyPinThe art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. – John LasseterPinThe great growling engine of change – technology. – Alvin TofflerPinJust because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless. – Thomas EdisonPinScience and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. – Arthur SchlesingerPinTechnology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. – Bill GatesPinTechnology 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
4 Quotes about Technology Innovation
“My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars – this is very important – so you don’t have to carry the return fuel when you go there.”
PinTechnology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible. – Alvin TofflerPinInnovation is the outcome of a habit, not a random act. – Sukant RatnakarPinThe digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly. – Demetri Martin
4 Quotes about Technology for Communication and Friendship
“Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn’t help us know what to say.”
Jonathan Sacks
PinThe technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want. – George LucasPinThe great myth of our times is that technology is communication. – Libby LarsenPinI force people to have coffee with me, just because I don’t trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen. – John Cusack
13 Quotes about Technology and Humanity
“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.”
Steve Jobs
PinIt has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. – Albert EinsteinPinIt’s not faith in technology. It’s faith in people. – Steve Jobs
“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
PinTechnology should improve your life… not become your life. – Billy CoxPinThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. – B. F. Skinner
“Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.”
Jean Arp
PinHumanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. – R. Buckminster FullerPinTechnology is best when it brings people together. – Matt MullenwegPinWe have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users. – Jeff AtwoodPinCivilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. – Alfred North WhiteheadPinThe world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. – John F. KennedyPinThe human spirit must prevail over technology. – Albert Einstein
2 Quotes about Technology in Business
PinWhat new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done. – Tim O’ReillyPinOur business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships. – Michael Dell
15 Quotes about the Disadvantage of Technology
“Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particularly like to do homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology.”
Martin Heidegger
PinTechnological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. – Aldous HuxleyPinIt is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. – Clive James
“An asteroid or a super volcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.”
Elon Musk
PinThe Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. – Andrew BrownPinSuccess in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. – Stephen Hawking
“Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.”
James Surowiecki
PinThere are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. – Georges PompidouPinEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. – Gertrude SteinPinMen have become the tools of their tools. – Henry David ThoreauPinThe march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. – Thomas SowellPinTechnology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. – Daniel J. BoorstinPinIf we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. – Omar N. BradleyPinTechnology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. – Carrie SnowPinCell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity. – Robin S. Sharma
3 Quotes about Technology for Television
PinTelevision has changed the American child from an irresistible force to an immovable object. – Laurence J. PeterPinTelevision is a medium because anything well done is rare. – Fred AllenPinDo you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight? – Al Boliska
10 Quotes about Technology that Will Make You Think
“Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing… you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn’t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.”
Jimmy Carter
PinOnce a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road. – Stewart BrandPinPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. – Alan KayPinGetting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. – Mitch KaporPinIt’s not that we use technology, we live technology. – Godfrey ReggioPinFor a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. – Richard P. FeynmanPinBill Gates is a very rich man today… and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions. – Dave BarryPinThe Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past. – Tim Berners-LeePinWe’re still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution. – Scott CookPinI think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It’s really a different product category. – Jeff Bezos
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