Quotes on technology
When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
Chase, Alexander
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
Kay, Alan C.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Whitehead, Alfred North
It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
Eliot, T.S.
This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.
Salk, Jonas
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Harris, Sydney J.
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Frisch, Max
The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U. S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.
Galbraith, John Kenneth
I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind!
Unknown, Author
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Einstein, Albert
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
Eno, Brian
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
Kennedy, Mark
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... tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
Arp, Jean
Use of advanced messaging technology does not imply an endorsement of western industrial civilization.
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For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
Kahn, Alice
You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers.
Lippmann, Walter
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
Fromm, Erich
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.
Mumford, Lewis
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Asimov, Isaac