Technology Quotes - Page 2

At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.

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

To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.

It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress,
but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.

Analogy of scientist who try to reach the higher speed:
A child ant is tired after the long walk in a body of a jet.
It tries to find a method of traveling faster than walking.

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.

Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.

I consider it extremely doubtful whether the happiness of the human race has been enhanced by the technical and industrial developments that followed in the wake of rapidly progressing natural science.

All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control,’ he said. ‘We can’t turn off our internet; we can’t turn off our smartphones; we can’t turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it’s not God…

If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster.

Size does matter.
Nano even better.

The computer focuses ruthlessly on things that can be represented in numbers. In so doing, it seduces people into thinking that other aspects of knowledge are either unreal or unimportant. The computer treats reason as an instrument for achieving things, not for contemplating things. It narrows dramatically what we know and intended by reason.

We are more advanced technologically than ever before. However, technology, in many respects, is leading to the decline of conversation.

The less you use your brain, the less it will be there for use when you need it.

Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man.

In this age, you must be relentlessly remarkable to stay relevant, if not you will be relegated.

Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; computers are fast, accurate, and stupid.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII - and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.